Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Android OS

Google patched six critical remote code execution flaws in its Android operating system as part of its October Android Security Bulletin. Four of those remote code execution flaws are tied to Android’s Media framework and impact a wide range of Android devices including Google’s Pixel and Nexus...

Android Security Bulletin—August 2018Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security patch levels of 2018-08-05 or later address all of these issues. To learn how to check a device's security patch level, see Check and update your Android version. Android partners are...

Pixel / Nexus Security Bulletin—February 2018Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel/Nexus Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Google Pixel and Nexus devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2018-02-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the...

Android Security Bulletin—October 2017Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security patch levels of October 05, 2017 or later address all of these issues. To learn how to check a device's security patch level, see Check & update your Android version. Android partners ar...

Remote Wi-Fi Attack Backdoors iPhone 7

Google on Tuesday disclosed details and a proof-of-concept exploit for a Wi-Fi firmware vulnerability in Broadcom chipsets patched this week in iOS 11. The attack enables code execution and persistent presence on a compromised device. “The exploit gains code execution on the Wi-Fi firmware on the...

Android Security Bulletin—June 2017Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security patch levels of June 05, 2017 or later address all of these issues. Refer to the Pixel and Nexus update schedule to learn how to check a device's security patch level. Partners were...

initroot: Bypassing Nexus 6 Secure Boot through Kernel Command-line Injection

In the May 2017 Android Security Bulletin, Google released a patch to a critical and unique vulnerability CVE-2016-10277 in the Nexus 6 bootloader we had found and responsibly disclosed. By exploiting the vulnerability, a physical adversary or one with authorized-ADB/fastboot USB access to the...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA SHIELD Contains Multiple Vulnerabilities in nvhost_job.c

Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-6915 NVIDIA nvhostjob.c contains a vulnerability in the stack buffer overflow, leading to a system crash Android Security Bulletin – December 2016 CVSS Base Score: 8.4 CVSS Temporal Score: 7.6 CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C...

Dirty Cow Vulnerability Patched in Android Security Bulletin

The Dirty Cow vulnerability lived in Linux for close to a decade, and while it was patched in October in the kernel and in Linux distributions, Android users had to wait for more than a month for their fix. Today, Google included a patch for CVE-2016-5195 in the monthly Android Security Bulletin,...

Android Proxy Auto Config (PAC) Crash Vulnerability

Android devices can be crashed forcing a halt and then a soft reboot by downloading a large proxy auto config PAC file when adjusting the Android networking settings. This can also be exploited by an MITM attacker that can intercept and replace the PAC file. However, the bug is mitigated by...

Android Security Bulletin—November 2016Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Google devices through an over-the-air OTA update. The Google device firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer...

August 2016 Android Security Bulletin

Google today patched more than three-dozen critical vulnerabilities in Qualcomm components embedded in the Android operating system, all of them allowing attackers to gain a foothold on devices to launch further attacks. The Qualcomm-related patches are among dozens in the monthly Android Securit...

Exploiting CVE-2016-2060 on Qualcomm Devices

Mandiant’s Red Team recently discovered a widespread vulnerability affecting Android devices that permits local privilege escalation to the built-in user “radio”, making it so an attacker can potentially perform activities such as viewing the victim’s SMS database and phone history. The...

Google Patches More Trouble in Mediaserver

Google has re-branded its monthly patch release, bringing a new name and new scope to the newly renamed Android Security Bulletin. While that may be new, the content is definitely familiar. Once again, critical remote code execution Mediaserver vulnerabilities dominate this month’s patches...

Android Security Bulletin—May 2016Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site...

Nexus Security Bulletin—April 2016Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

We have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update as part of our Android Security Bulletin Monthly Release process. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site. Security Patch Levels of April 02, 2016 or later address these...

Nexus Security Bulletin—January 2016Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

We have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update as part of our Android Security Bulletin Monthly Release process. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site. Builds LMY49F or later and Android 6.0 with Security Patch Level...