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BlackBerry releases March 2019 Android Security Update for BlackBerry Android devices

BlackBerry has today rolled out the March 2019 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-2018-20346
Elevation of Privilege in Framework CVE-2019-1985
Information Disclosure in Framework CVE-2019-2004
Elevation of Privilege in Framework CVE-2019-2005
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2019-1989
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2019-1990
Elevation of Privilege in Media Framework CVE-2019-2007
Elevation of Privilege in Media Framework CVE-2019-2008
Remote Code Execution in System CVE-2019-2009
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2010
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2011
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2012
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2013
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2014
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2015
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2016
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2017
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2018
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9561
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9563
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9564
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2019-2019
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2019-2020
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2019-2021
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2019-2022
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2023
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Components CVE-2018-10883
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Components CVE-2019-2024
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Components CVE-2019-2025
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2017-8252
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2018-13917
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2018-11966

 

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 March 1 2019 or later.

Updated software builds may also be available from other retailers or carriers, dependent on their deployment schedules.