Google Patches Critical Android Vulnerabilities

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On Monday, Google released another round of security patches for Android patching 33 vulnerabilities that left users unguarded against a variety of hacking attacks.

The biggest threat comes from the Media Framework vulnerability, exploitation of which could allow a local malicious application to gain control of isolated application data, completely bypassing operating system defenses, according to Google’s advisory. The affected devices are not rendered unusable by the vulnerability, only their integrity is compromised if the vulnerability is exploited. 

Three high-severity vertical privilege escalation flaws in Framework, a pair of elevation of privilege problems and three information reveals vulnerabilities in System, are all addressed by the new security patch (2021-08-01) released at the beginning of the week. 

The August 2021 Android Security Bulletin fixes several s…

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