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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...

Google Nexus Mediaserver Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-11146)

Google Nexus is a series of smart devices based on the Android operating system developed by Google, including cell phones and tablets. Mediaserver is a multimedia service component of Google Nexus, a series of smart devices based on the Android operating system developed by Google, including...

How to Safely Remove Android Traybar Icon in XenMobile

This article describes how to safely remove Android traybar icon in XenMobile. Background XenMobile has a lot of great policies to manageyour users' mobile devices. I'm going to discuss one in particular that can be a little tricky. We'll be updating our documentation to cover this in a bit more...

Android devices cannot launch apps after updating VDA agent to version 7.11

After upgrading VDA to v7.11; Receiver for Android users cannot launch published Apps or Desktops. The following error message is observed on the Android devices: "The common name on the ID certificate is not what was expected" In addition, the receiver logs shall contain similar stack trace: 09-...

CVE-2016-3939

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdssdebug.c in the Qualcomm video driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30874196 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1001224...

CVE-2016-3938

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdssmdpoverlay.c in the Qualcomm video driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30019716 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1049232...

CVE-2016-3938

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdssmdpoverlay.c in the Qualcomm video driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30019716 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1049232...

Integer overflow

Multiple integer overflows in drivers/crypto/msm/qcedev.c in the Qualcomm cryptographic engine driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29999665 and Qualcomm...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3881

The decoderpeeksiinternal function in vp9/vp9dxiface.c in libvpx in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read, and device hang or reboot vi...

CVE-2016-3881

The decoderpeeksiinternal function in vp9/vp9dxiface.c in libvpx in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read, and device hang or reboot vi...

CVE-2016-3864

The Qualcomm radio interface layer in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28823714 and Qualcomm internal bug CR913117...

CVE-2016-3865

The Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X and 9 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 28799389...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability in the Linux kernel version up to 3.11 on ARM-based Android platforms is related to improper handling of user space access to the TPIDRURW register. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to enhance their privileges through a specially created application...

CVE-2016-5342

Heap-based buffer overflow in the wcnsswlanwrite function in drivers/net/wireless/wcnss/wcnsswlan.c in the wcnsswlan device driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9900

The ethtoolgetwol function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android...

CVE-2014-9900

The ethtoolgetwol function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android...

CVE-2014-9895

drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug...

CVE-2014-9892

The sndcomprtstamp function in sound/core/compressoffload.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not properly initialize a timestamp data structure, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted applicatio...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...

CVE-2014-9888

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 2013 devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 a...