Keeping up with every month’s tradition, a couple hours ago Google made public their new security patches for Android, the most used mobile operative system in the world. This patches fix all the new vulnerabilities that were detected during the last month in order to make the operative system safer and allow users to use it without being exposed. Unluckily, only a couple fortunate people will be able to install these patches.
These new March 2018 Android security patches solve a total of 37 vulnerabilities, many of them critical and the rest of them highly dangerous, mostly on Linux, such as the multimedia framework, the Kernes and privative codes from NVIDIA and Qualcomm’s chips.
Almost every month Google fixes security failures very similar to the ones we mentioned. This time, the most dangerous one is on Android’s multimedia framework and can enable and attacker to execute a code remotely in the device’s memory with the maximum level of privilege (root) using and executable file especially designed for this. This affects any smartphone, tablet or device, from any manufacturer or Android version.
Many privilege elevation vulnerabilities were also fixed that were being used by some tools to get root permits on the device, although it is still possible to do this in any device without any restricition. (more…)
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