Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Google has released one of the largest Android monthly security updates, fixing a total of 39 vulnerabilities — 15 rated critical, including four that can lead to a complete device compromise. The patches, which are included in new firmware images that were released Monday for the company’s Nexus devices, will also be published to the Android Open Source Project over the next 24 hours. They include a fix for a vulnerability that Google warned about two weeks ago and which is already being exploited by a publicly available rooting application. Tracked as CVE-2015-1805, the privilege escalation flaw was originally fixed in the Linux kernel in April 2014, but it didn’t become clear until February this year that it also affects Android. Android’s media processing components continue to be a source of serious vulnerabilities. This month’s update includes patches for nine critical remote code execution flaws in the Android media codec, mediaserver and Stagefright media library. In addition, one privilege escalation vulnerability and four information disclosure issues rated as high impact were also fixed in mediaserver. Other components where critical flaws were found and patched include the Android kernel, the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) client, the Qualcomm Performance module and […]
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