Google Patches 29 Critical Android Vulnerabilities Including Holes in Mediaserver, Qualcomm

  • 4 January 2017
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By Tom Spring January 4, 2017
 
                                          


 
Google has patched ten critical vulnerabilities tied to problem-plagued Android components like Mediaserver, NVIDIA’s GPU driver, and Qualcomm’s driver. The most serious bug, according to Google’s January Android Security Bulletin, is the Mediaserver vulnerability.
 
“The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2017-0381) that could enable remote code execution on an affected device through multiple methods such as email, web browsing, and MMS when processing media files,” according to the bulletin.
 
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