Android July 2017 Security Patch Goes Live for Nexus/Pixel Devices, Update Now

Google announced the availability of July's security patch for users of the Android mobile operating system, which is now rolling out to several supported Nexus and Pixel devices.

Every month, Google releases a new major patch for its Linux-based Android OS for the mobile devices that the search giant supports at a given moment in time. As expected, the Android Security Bulletin of July 2017 contains a number of security vulnerabilities that are currently affecting Android devices.

The most critical of the issues that were patched in this latest update is a dangerous security vulnerability discovered in the media framework of the Android operating system, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code related to a privileged process by using a specially crafted file.

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