Android Security Advisory — 2016-03-18Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

Android Security Advisories are supplemental to the Nexus Security Bulletins. Refer to our summary page for more information about Security Advisories. Summary Google has become aware of a rooting application using an unpatched local elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel on some...

Nexus Security Bulletin - February 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 LMY49G or later and Android M with Security Patch Level o...

pipe inatomic

The 1 piperead and 2 pipewrite implementations in fs/pipe.c in the Linux kernel before 3.16 do not properly consider the side effects of failed copytouserinatomic and copyfromuserinatomic calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain privileges via a...