BlackBerry have promised to deliver security patches on a monthly basis for the BlackBerry Priv, and so far they are keeping good on that promise.
The company has today rolled out the March Security upgrade (AAE016) to BlackBerry Priv’s worldwide.
This advisory is in response to the Nexus Security Bulletin (March 2016) and addresses issues in that bulletin that affect BlackBerry Android smartphones
The update comes in at 17Mb and updates 88 apps.
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed in this update:
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| Summary | Description | CVE |
| Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Mediaserver | During media file and data processing of a specially crafted file, a vulnerability in mediaserver could allow an attacker to cause memory corruption and remote code execution as the mediaserver process. The affected functionality is provided as a core part of the operating system and there are multiple applications that allow it to be reached with remote content, most notably MMS and browser playback of media. |
CVE-2016-0815 |
| Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in libvpx | There are multiple vulnerabilities in libvpx that could allow remote code execution in the privileged process mediaserver. | CVE-2016-1621 |
| Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Conscrypt | An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Conscrypt component can enable a man in the middle to intercept, manipulate, and inject arbitrary content on an encrypted communication leading to remote code execution. | CVE-2016-0818 |
| Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Keyring Component | An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Kernel Keyring Component can enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the kernel. | CVE-2016-0728 |
| Mitigation Bypass Vulnerability in the Kernel | A mitigation bypass vulnerability in the kernel can permit a bypass of security measures in place to increase the difficulty of attackers exploiting the platform. | CVE-2016-0821 |
| Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Kernel | An information disclosure vulnerability in the kernel can permit a bypass of security measures in place to increase the difficulty of attackers exploiting the platform. | CVE-2016-0823 |
| Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities in Mediaserver | Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in mediaserver can enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of an elevated system application. | CVE-2016-0826 CVE-2016-0827 |
| Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities in Mediaserver | Information disclosure vulnerabilities in mediaserver can permit a bypass of security measures in place to increase the difficulty of attackers exploiting the platform. | CVE-2016-0828 CVE-2016-0829 |
| Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Telephony | An information disclosure vulnerability in the Telephony component could allow an application to access sensitive information. | CVE-2016-0831 |
| Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Setup Wizard | A vulnerability in the Setup Wizard could enable an attacker who had physical access to the device to gain access to device settings and perform a manual device reset. | CVE-2016-0832 |
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Full details of the March 2016 Security Bulletin is available here.
If you own a Priv and are not seeing the system update message, you can check manually by heading into Settings -> About phone -> System updates and checking manually.
