BlackBerry October 2018 Android Security Update

BlackBerry has today rolled out the October 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-2018-9490
Remote Code Execution in Framework			CVE-2018-9491
Elevation of Privilege in Framework			CVE-2018-9492
Information Disclosure in Framework			CVE-2018-9493
Denial of Service in Framework			CVE-2018-9452
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework			CVE-2018-9497
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework			CVE-2018-9498
Information Disclosure in Media Framework			CVE-2018-9499
Remote Code Execution in System			CVE-2017-13283
Elevation of Privilege in System			CVE-2018-9476
Remote Code Execution in System			CVE-2018-9504
Elevation of Privilege in System			CVE-2018-9501
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9502
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9503
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9505
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9506
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9507
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9508
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9509
Information Disclosure in System			CVE-2018-9510
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Components			CVE-2018-9514
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Components			CVE-2018-9515
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components			CVE-2017-18315

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 October 5, 2018 or later.