Google Releases March 2018's Android Security Patch for Pixel and Nexus Devices

Google released today March 2018's Android Security Patch for supported Pixel and Nexus devices, addressing a total of 37 critical security vulnerabilities across various components of the Linux-based mobile operating system.

The search giant has recently updated its Android Security Bulletin for March 2018 to inform OEMs and end-users about the security patch levels it released, namely 2018-03-01 and 2018-03-05, which address a total of 37 critical vulnerabilities and bugs for the media framework, kernel, as well as NVIDIA and Qualcomm 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," sai...