January 4, 2018 By Pierluigi Paganini
Google patched five Critical bugs and 33 High severity flaws as part of the Android Security Bulletin for January 2018.
The tech giant addressed 38 Android security vulnerabilities, 20 as part of the 2018-01-01 security patch level and 18 in the 2018-01-05 security patch level.
The 2018-01-01 security patch level fixed four Critical remote code execution issue and 16 High risk elevation of privilege and denial of service flaws.
The most severe vulnerability in Android runtime, tracked as CVE-2017-13176, could be exploited by a remote attacker to bypass user interaction requirements in order to gain access to additional permissions.
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