Coverity, a company with tools to check for programming problems that pose security risks, has found 359 of them in a scan of the Android source code.
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There are 88 high-risk problems and 271 medium-risk problems in the source code underlying the Android kernel used in the Verizon-based HTC Incredible's phone, the company said Tuesday. Android uses the Linux kernel, but the Android-specific components have a higher defect rate than mainstream Linux, Coverity said.
"We found that the Android-specific files had a higher defect density (0.78 defects [per kernel line of code]) than any other component in the system (the other components consist mostly of files unmodified from a Linux kernel). In addition, the Android-specific files had more high-risk defects than any other component," Coverity said in the report.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Study: 359 Android code flaws pose security risks on CNET News.
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