BlackBerry has today rolled out the August 2018 Android Security update to BlackBerry Android devices.
The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. BlackBerry releases security bulletins to notify users of its Android smartphones about available security fixes.
The following vulnerabilities have been remediated in this update:
| Summary | CVE |
| Elevation of Privilege in Framework | CVE-2018-9445 |
| Denial of Service in Framework | CVE-2018-9438 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Framework | CVE-2018-9458 |
| Information Disclosure in Framework | CVE-2018-9451 |
| Remote Code Execution in Media framework | CVE-2018-9427 |
| Denial of Service in Media framework | CVE-2018-9444 |
| Denial of Service in Media framework | CVE-2018-9437 |
| Remote Code Execution in System | CVE-2018-9446 |
| Remote Code Execution in System | CVE-2018-9450 |
| Denial of Service in System | CVE-2018-9455 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9436 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9454 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9448 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9453 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components | CVE-2017-18249 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components | CVE-2018-9465 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components | CVE-2018-11260 |
| Vulnerability in Qualcomm closed-source components | CVE-2017-18304 |
| Vulnerability in Qualcomm closed-source components | CVE-2017-18303 |
| Vulnerability in Qualcomm closed-source components | CVE-2017-18301 |
| Information Disclosure in Framework | CVE-2017-1000100 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9435 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9461 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9449 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9457 |
| Information Disclosure in System | CVE-2018-9441 |
| Denial of Service in System | CVE-2017-13322 |
| Denial of Service in System | CVE-2018-9447 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components | CVE-2018-9439 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components | CVE-2018-1068 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components | CVE-2018-11263 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components | CVE-2018-5910 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components | CVE-2018-5908 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components | CVE-2018-5905 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components | CVE-2018-5904 |
| Information Disclosure in Qualcomm components | CVE-2017-18306 |
| Information Disclosure in Qualcomm components | CVE-2017-18307 |
| Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components | CVE-2017-9711 |
If you own an Android device from BlackBerry and are not seeing the system update message, you can check manually by heading into Settings -> About phone -> System updates and checking manually.
Look for the following Android security patch level August 5, 2018 or later.
Updated software builds may also be available from other retailers or carriers, dependent on their deployment schedules.
