Google fixed a critical Remote Code Execution flaw in Android

Google released an Android security update that addressed tens of flaws, including a critical Android remote code execution vulnerability.

Google released an Android security update that addresses 43 flaws, including a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Android System component tracked as CVE-2021-0316. Google addressed the flaws with the release of Security patch levels of 2021-01-05 or later.

“The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that could enable a remote attacker using a specially crafted transmission to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process.” reads Google’s January Android security bulletin.

The bulletin also fixed a critical DoS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-0313, that affects the Framework. The flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted transmission to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process.

The above vulnerabilities affect Android versions 8.0, 8.1, 9, 10 and 11.

Source code patches for these vulnerabilities have been released to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository.

Google also addressed other 2 critical flaws in the Qualcomm closed-source components tracked as CVE-2020-11134 and CVE-2020-11182.

Google also fixed the following high-severity vulnerabilities:

Framework: CVE-2021-0303, CVE-2021-0306, CVE-2021-0307,CVE-2021-0310, CVE-2021-0315, CVE-2021-0317, CVE-2021-0318, CVE-2021-0319, CVE-2021-0304, CVE-2021-0309, CVE-2021-0321, CVE-2021-0322, CVE-2019-9376;
Media Framework: CVE-2021-0311, CVE-2021-0312; CVE-2021-0308, CVE-2021-0320;
System: CVE-2020-0471;
Kernel components: CVE-2020-10732, CVE-2020-10766, CVE-2021-0323;
MediaTek components: CVE-2021-0301;
Qualcomm components: CVE-2020-11233, CVE-2020-11239, CVE-2020-11220, CVE-2020-11250, CVE-2020-11261, CVE-2020-11262;
Qualcomm closed-source components: CVE-2020-11126, CVE-2020-11126, CVE-2020-11159, CVE-2020-11181, CVE-2020-11235, CVE-2020-11238, CVE-2020-11241, CVE-2020-11260.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Google)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.