Android Security Patch for February 2019 Now Rolling Out with More Than 40 Fixes | Linux Today

Android Security Patch for February 2019 Now Rolling Out with More Than 40 Fixes

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Marius Nestor
Feb 5, 2019

February 2019’s Android Security Patch is now rolling out to all supported Google devices and consists of the 2019-02-01 and 2019-02-05 security patch levels, fixing a total of 42 security vulnerability across several components, including the Android framework, library, and system, as well as kernel, Nvidia, and Qualcommcomponents. The most severe issue fixed in this update allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code using malicious PNG files.

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Marius Nestor

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