Google Releases July 2018's Android Security Patch to Fix 70 Vulnerabilities

Google has released July 2018's Android Security Patch for all supported Pixel and Nexus devices to fix numerous security vulnerabilities and add various improvement.

The Android Security Patch for July 2018 is now rolling out to Pixel and Nexus users worldwide, and, as usual, it consists of two security patch levels, 2018-07-01 and 2018-07-05, which address a total of 44 vulnerabilities across several core components, including Framework, Media Framework, Kernel and Qualcomm components, as well as Qualcomm closed-source components.

"The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in Media framework that could enable a remote attacker using a specially crafted file to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. The severity assessment is based on the effect that exploiting the vulnerability would possibly have on an affected device," reads the Android Secur... (read more)

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