BlackBerry has today rolled out the February 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 Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2017-13228 Information Disclosure in Media Framework CVE-2017-13232 Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2017-13230 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2017-13233 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2017-13234 Update: Elevation of Privilege in Media Framework CVE-2017-0837 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel ALSA CVE-2017-15265 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Multi-queue Block IO CVE-2015-9016 Remote Code Execution in Qualcomm WLan CVE-2017-15817 Remote Code Execution in Qualcomm WLan CVE-2017-17760 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Media Framework CVE-2017-11041 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Media Framework CVE-2017-17767 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm WLan CVE-2017-17762 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm WLan CVE-2017-14884 Information Disclosure in Media Framework CVE-2017-13241 Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2017-13229 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2017-13235 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2017-13242 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2017-13243 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Audio Driver CVE-2017-13245 Information Disclosure in Kernel Network Driver CVE-2017-13246 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm Qcacld-2.0 CVE-2017-15859 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm Qdsp6v2 CVE-2017-17769 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Synaptics_dsx_htc Touchscreen Driver CVE-2017-9723 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Ipa Driver CVE-2017-14881 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Ipa Driver CVE-2017-14877 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm MDSS Rotator CVE-2017-15826 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Qdsp6v2 CVE-2017-14892 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Framebuffer CVE-2017-15852 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Camera CVE-2017-15846 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm WiFi CVE-2017-11043 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm KGSL CVE-2017-14891 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Camera Driver CVE-2017-17771 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm Media Framework CVE-2017-11087
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 Android security patch level February 5, 2018 or later.
Updated software builds may also be available from other retailers or carriers, dependent on their deployment schedules.
