Android Security Bulletin—July 2020Stay 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 2020-07-05 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 Update Bulletin—February 2020Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2020-02-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the February 2020 Android...

Pixel Update Bulletin—January 2020Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2020-01-01 or later address, at a minimum, all issues in this bulletin and all issues associated with t...

Google offers up to $1.5 million bounty for remotely hacking Titan M chip

With its latest announcement to increase bug bounty rewards for finding and reporting critical vulnerabilities in the Android operating system, Google yesterday set up a new challenging level for hackers that could let them win a bounty of up to $1.5 million. Starting today, Google will pay $1...

Google Will Award $1M-Plus to People Who Can Hack Titan M Security Chip

Google is willing to award up to $1.5 million to hackers who can successfully hack its Titan M security chip on the company’s Pixel devices as part of an expansion of its Android bug-bounty program unveiled this week. The company revealed increased payouts to its Android Security Rewards in a blo...

Android Security Bulletin—November 2019Stay 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 2019-11-05 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...

Google October Android Security Update Fixes Critical RCE Flaws

UPDATE Google has released fixes for three critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Media framework of its Android operating system, which if exploited could allow a remote attacker to execute code. The remote code execution RCE flaws are part of Google’s October 2019 Android Security Bulletin,...

Android Security Bulletin—October 2019Stay 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 2019-10-06 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 are...

Pixel Update Bulletin—September 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2019-09-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the September 2019 Android...

Pixel Update Bulletin—August 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2019-08-01 or later address, at a minimum, all issues in this bulletin and all issues associated with t...

Android July 2019 Security Update Patches 33 New Vulnerabilities

Google has started rolling out this month's security updates for its mobile operating system platform to address a total of 33 new security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices, 9 of which have been rated critical in severity. The vulnerabilities affect various Android components, including...

Android Security Bulletin—July 2019Stay 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 2019-07-05 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 Update Bulletin—May 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Google Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2019-05-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the May 2019 Android...

Android Security Bulletin — March 2019Stay 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 2019-03-05 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...

Android Kernel 4.8 - ptrace seccomp Filter Bypass

Android Kernel 4.8 - ptrace seccomp Filter Bypass / The seccomp.2 manpage http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/seccomp.2.html documents: Before kernel 4.8, the seccomp check will not be run again after the tracer is notified. This means that, on older ker‐ nels, seccomp-based sandboxes must not...

Android Security Bulletin — February 2019Stay 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 2019-02-05 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 Update Bulletin—February 2019Stay organized with collectionsSave and categorize content based on your preferences.

The Pixel Update Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities and functional improvements affecting supported Google Pixel devices Google devices. For Google devices, security patch levels of 2019-02-05 or later address all issues in this bulletin and all issues in the February 2019...

Android Security Bulletin—January 2019Stay 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 2019-01-05 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...

Google Android Bootloader Component Privilege Permission and Access Control Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, of which Bootloader is a bootloader. A security vulnerability exists in the Bootloader component in Android on Pixel devices. A local attacker can exploit the vulnerability to gai...

CVE-2018-9567

On Pixel devices there is a bug causing verified boot to show the same certificate fingerprint despite using different signing keys. This may lead to local escalation of privilege if people are relying on those fingerprints to determine what version of the OS the device is running, with System...