BlackBerry October 2017 Android Security Update

BlackBerry has today rolled out the October 2017 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 GateKeeperResponse			CVE-2017-0806
Elevation of Privilege in UI Framework			CVE-2017-0807
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0809
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0810
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0811
Information Disclosure in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0815
Information Disclosure in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0816
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Network Subsystem			CVE-2017-9075
Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Network Subsystem			CVE-2017-9714
Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Linux boot			CVE-2017-9683
Information Disclosure in File System			CVE-2017-0808
Denial of Service in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0813
Denial of Service in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0814
Information Disclosure in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0817
Denial of Service in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0818
Denial of Service in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0819
Denial of Service in Media Framework			CVE-2017-0820
Elevation of Privilege in Camera			CVE-2017-0822
Information Disclosure in RILD			CVE-2017-0823
Information Disclosure in Broadcom WiFi Driver			CVE-2017-0825
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel SCSI Driver			CVE-2017-7187
Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm SPS Driver			CVE-2017-9686
Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Video Driver			CVE-2017-9706
Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm SoC Driver			CVE-2017-9697

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, 2017 or later.