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If you’re a Pixel user, then you have just been warned to update your device as soon as the latest software is downloaded to your phone over the next few days. This new update provides a critical fix, and also addresses April’s nasty surprise...a mess... didn’t reach all the qualifying Pixel smartphones,” it’s critically important that May’s rollout runs smoothly and all Pixel users apply it as soon as it’s made available.
This month’s critical security fix impacts the device’s change log, and could lead to “local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed.” While this means that in isolation an attacker would need access to your device, and for “platform and service mitigations” to be disabled, such vulnerabilities can often be exploited as part of a more sophisticated chain attack, which expands the threat.
The high-severity Pixel fixes this month are also primarily local escalation of privileges vulnerabilities, impacting the Android Framework used by apps through APIs and the core system services themselves. Again, while relatively contained in isolation, when combined with other weaknesses the threat level can change.All Pixel owners should ensure that Google Play Protect is enabled on their devices, and that apps are only installed from the Play Store.
All told, May is a much more benign update that last month’s, which patched vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wold by forensics software vendors. And next month we’re due a much fuller, quarterly update—so that also promises more., which is the latest AI-centric offering from Google. From a security perspective, how this plays against Samsung’s hybrid-AI which is now being extended across its range will be especially interesting.
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