Two security flaws recently uncovered in Android 1.5 could have enabled malicious denial of service attacks on users of the mobile platform, according to an advisory released last week by the Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team. The first of the flaws, which affected Android’s handling of SMS, could have allowed a malformed message to disconnect the mobile phone from the cellular network, creating a remote DoS condition, oCERT reported. That problem was fixed in July.
