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Google Patches 35 Critical Android Vulnerabilities

By Ionut Arghire on March 07, 2017

 

Google this week released a new set of monthly security patches for Android to address over 100 vulnerabilities in the platform, 35 of which carry a Critical severity rating.

 

In a newly published Security Bulletin, Google reveals that two partial security patch level strings are rolling out this month: the 2017-03-01 security patch level to resolve 36 vulnerabilities (11 Critical, 15 High, 9 Moderate, 1 Low), and the 2017-03-05 security patch level to address 71 flaws (24 Critical, 32 High, 14 Moderate, 1 Low).

 

The 11 Critical flaws resolved with the 2017-03-01 security patch level include nine Remote Code Execution (RCE) issues in Mediaserver; one RCE in OpenSSL & BoringSSL; and an Elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerability in recovery verifier.

 

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