Security News > 2024 > June > Google patches exploited Android zero-day on Pixel devices

Google added a new CVE ID to track the Pixel fix for CVE-2024-29748, a vulnerability exploited by several forensics companies, as BleepingComputer reported in April.

"It's fixed on Pixels with the June update and will be fixed on other Android devices when they eventually update to Android 15. If they don't update to Android 15, they probably won't get the fix, since it has not been backported. Not all patches are backported."

Google has released patches for 50 security vulnerabilities impacting its Pixel devices and warned that one of them had already been exploited in targeted attacks as a zero-day.

"All supported Google devices will receive an update to the 2024-06-05 patch level. We encourage all customers to accept these updates to their devices."

While Pixel devices also run Android, they receive separate security and bug fix updates from the standard monthly patches distributed to all Android OEMs because of their exclusive features and capabilities and the unique hardware platform directly controlled by Google.

In April, Google fixed two other Pixel zero-days exploited by forensic firms to unlock phones without a PIN and access the data.

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