Android Security Updates Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

Last week, Android security updates for October 2022 began to be distributed, with remedies for over 50 vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity issue in the Framework component. The major issue, tracked as CVE-2022-20419 and defined as an information disclosure fault, has been patched with the ‘2022-10-01 security patch level,’ along with five additional Framework vulnerabilities that might lead to elevation of privilege, information exposure, and denial of service (DoS).The most serious of these flaws is a significant security vulnerability in the Framework component, which might result in local privilege escalation with no extra execution rights required. Read More…