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BlackBerry releases September 2019 Android Security Update for BlackBerry Android devices

BlackBerry has today rolled out the September 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-2019-2123
Elevation of Privilege in Framework CVE-2019-2174
Remote Code Execution in Media Framework CVE-2019-2176
Remote Code Execution in System CVE-2019-2177
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2115
Elevation of Privilege in System CVE-2019-2178
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2019-2179
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2019-2180
Information Disclosure in System CVE-2019-2124
Elevation of Privilege in Kernel Components CVE-2019-2181
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-2283
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-2316
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-10491
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-10505
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-2323
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-2324
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-2325
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-2331
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-2332
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-10512
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-10515
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-10524
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-10529
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components CVE-2019-10531
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2019-2275
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2019-10488
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2019-2285
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2019-10504
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2019-10522
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2019-10534
Vulnerability in Qualcomm Closed-Source Components CVE-2019-10541

 

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 September 5, 2019 or later.

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