IconVulnerability

2014-10-30

Summary

Crash of important processes

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This malware uses a very large icon which overloads the system's capabilities and causes some important processes to crash, such as Settings and Launcher. When Android tries to load this huge icon, the system will throw out memory exceptions.

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Triggering

install application with adb. The mobile immediatly crashes

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