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From www.net-security.org - December 7, 2015 4:07 PM
Can you believe that an estimated 6.1 million smart phones, routers, and smart TVs are vulnerable to remote code execution attacks due to security bugs that have been fixed back in 2012?

According to Trend Micro mobile threats analyst Veo Zhang, the problem lies in the fact that there are many apps out there - very popular apps, even - that use an older version, vulnerable of the portable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK library (aka libupnp). The library is used to implement media playback or NAT traversal.


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