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BlackBerry release June 2018 Android Security Update

BlackBerry has today rolled out the June 2018 Android Security update to BlackBery-branded Android devices.

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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.

Google have made two security patches available and, as always, BlackBerry have incorprated the latest patch – June 5, 2018.

The following vulnerabilities have been remediated in this update:

Summary CVE Elevation of Privilege in Systemserver CVE-2018-9338 Information Disclosure in Systemserver CVE-2018-9340 Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2018-9341 Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2018-5146 Information Disclosure in Media Framework CVE-2018-9345 Information Disclosure in Media Framework CVE-2018-9346 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9347 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9348 Remote Code Execution in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9355 Remote Code Execution in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9356 Elevation of Privilege in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9357 Information Disclosure in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9358 Information Disclosure in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9359 Information Disclosure in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9360 Information Disclosure in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9361 Denial of Service in Com.Android.Phone CVE-2018-9362 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Bluetooth CVE-2018-9363 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Crypto CVE-2017-17806 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Keyring CVE-2017-17807 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel USB CVE-2017-17558 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm Diag Driver CVE-2018-5857 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm WLAN CVE-2018-5834 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm WLAN Host CVE-2018-5830 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm GPU Driver CVE-2018-3569 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm WLAN Host CVE-2018-5894 Elevation of Privilege in Packagemanager CVE-2018-9374 Elevation of Privilege in User Dictionary CVE-2018-9375 Information Disclosure in Activitymanager CVE-2018-9377 Information Disclosure in Media Framework CVE-2018-9378 Information Disclosure in Media Framework CVE-2018-9379 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9349 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9350 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9351 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9352 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9353 Denial of Service in Media Framework CVE-2018-9354 Elevation of Privilege in Bluetooth CVE-2018-9380 Elevation of Privilege in Wifi Service CVE-2018-9382 Information Disclosure in Kernel Asn1_decoder CVE-2018-9383 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Ipv4/ipv6 CVE-2018-9389 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm Diag CVE-2018-5898 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm WLAN CVE-2018-5895 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm WLAN CVE-2017-13078 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm WLAN CVE-2017-13080 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm WLAN CVE-2018-3574 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Camerav2 CVE-2018-5829 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm Wcd_cpe_core CVE-2018-5897 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm DSP_Services CVE-2018-5893 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm DSP_Services CVE-2017-14872

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: June 5, 2018.

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