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Google Patches 13 Flaws in February Android Update

By Sean Michael Kerner

Google has come out with its second security patch update for Android in 2016, this time patching 13 vulnerabilities in the mobile device operating system. Five of the vulnerabilities are rated by Google as having critical severity.

Of the five critical vulnerabilities patched by Google, two (CVE-2016-0803 and CVE-2016-0804) are remote code execution vulnerabilities in Android’s mediaserver. The

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