Security News > 2021 > February > Google Patches Over a Dozen High-Severity Privilege Escalation Flaws in Android

Google this week published its Android security bulletin for February 2021, which includes information on more than 40 vulnerabilities, most of which could lead to elevation of privilege.

Tracked as CVE-2021-0325, the issue is considered critical on Android 8.1 and 9 platform releases, but has only a high severity rating on Android 10 and 11, Google's advisory explains.

Two other flaws patched in Media Framework this month, namely CVE-2021-0332 and CVE-2021-0335, were rated high severity.

Google also patched an information disclosure flaw in Android runtime, along with nine elevation of privilege and one denial of service issue in Framework, all of which were rated high severity.

The System component received patches for six vulnerabilities, namely one critical remote code execution bug and five high-severity elevation of privilege issues.

Pixel devices, Google explains, will receive patches for all the security vulnerabilities in the February 2021 Android security bulletin, and for the bug described in the Pixel update bulletin.

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