Approximately 50 vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity issue in the Framework component, were patched by the October 2022 security updates for Android, which began trickling out last week. Patches are available for all of these vulnerabilities as well as for previously fixed security problems on Android devices running the security patch level 2022-10-05.
The critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-20419 and referred to as an information disclosure bug, has been fixed along with five other Framework security flaws that could result in an elevation of privilege, information leak, or denial of service (DoS).