Security News > 2021 > August > Google Patches High-Risk Android Security Flaws

Google this week pushed out a security-themed Android update with fixes for more than 30 security flaws that expose mobile users to a range of malicious hacker attacks.

The latest Android update provides documentation on 33 security bugs, some serious enough to cause privilege escalation or information disclosure compromises.

"The most severe of these issues is a high security vulnerability in the Media Framework component that could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications," according to a Google advisory.

The 2021-08-01 security patch level also includes fixes for three high severity elevation of privilege flaws in Framework, and a pair of elevation of privilege and three information disclosure bugs in System.

The second part of this month's security update, the 2021-08-05 security patch level, brings fixes for a total of 24 vulnerabilities affecting Kernel components, MediaTek components, Widevine DRM, Qualcomm components, and Qualcomm closed-source components.

In addition to the vulnerabilities resolved with the August 2021 Android Security Bulletin, Google also fixed three medium-severity bugs specific to Google devices.

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