Security News > 2021 > March > Samsung fixes critical Android bugs in March 2021 updates
This week Samsung has started rolling out Android's March security updates to mobile devices to patch critical security vulnerabilities in the runtime, operating system, and related components.
This comes after Android had published their March 2021 security updates bulletin, which includes patches for critical vulnerabilities impacting the latest devices.
These updates mainly comprise significant security fixes with a couple of enhancements across Samsung Galaxy built-in apps like Calendar, Display, Social Platform, and SmartThings.
There's the critical vulnerability, CVE-2021-0397 lurking in the Android System arising from a null pointer, which has been fixed by this update.
"Exploitation for many issues on Android is made more difficult by enhancements in newer versions of the Android platform."
"We encourage all users to update to the latest version of Android where possible," stated this month's Android advisory.
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-10 | CVE-2021-0397 | Double Free vulnerability in Google Android In sdp_copy_raw_data of sdp_discovery.cc, there is a possible system compromise due to a double free. | 9.8 |