Android October Security Bulletin Fixes 78 Vulnerabilities

Google released on Monday, the Android October Security Bulletin, which this month addresses 78 security flaws, spread across two different patch levels.

These patch levels organize security flaws based on the components they affect, with the "2016-10-01 security patch level" affecting core Android services, drivers, and components that all smartphone vendors must address with high priority. The "2016-10-05 security patch level" only addresses issues in selected drivers and components that only some OEMs deploy with their Android versions, and smartphone vendors are required to implement only if they use those components.

The good news is that this month, Google engineers fixed only high and moderate level issues in core Android components, with no critical issues reported.

For this month, Google addresses 15 high severity issues and five moderate vulnerabilities in core Android components such as the Zygote core process, ServiceManager, the Lock Settings Service,...