Security News > 2019 > January > Google Patches Critical Vulnerability in Android
2019-01-09 17:18
Google this week released its first set of security patches for Android in 2019, with fixes for more than two dozen vulnerabilities. The most important of the security bugs is CVE-2018-9583, a Critical remote code execution vulnerability addressed in System and included in the 2019-01-01 security patch level. read more
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-11 | CVE-2018-9583 | Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Google Android In bta_ag_parse_cmer of bta_ag_cmd.cc in Android-7.0, Android-7.1.1, Android-7.1.2, Android-8.0, Android-8.1 and Android-9, there is a possible out-of-bounds write due to a missing bounds check. | 9.8 |