True to form, Google published this: Android security bulletin On the official website on October 4, 2021. This month, Mountain View engineers fixed 41 existing vulnerabilities in the operating system. In detail, Google filled 3 critical gaps. The remaining 38 flaws are considered serious by the search giant.
As always, Google uses the CVSS scale to determine the danger level of identified vulnerabilities. More serious flaws are those that allow the hacker to take control of the phone without the need for physical access or even any action from the user. Obviously Google also takes this into consideration direct consequences of exploitation fault for users.
How to install the October patch on your Android smartphone?
The first critical flaw Google mentioned was a hackerrun code remotely on your smartphone. But to achieve this, the attacker must grant himself a set of Android permissions. Permissions determine which apps can use certain features of the phone. Malware distributed by hackers does not hesitate to lie to Internet users, claiming to need access for bogus reasons, in order to obtain a user agreement.
The second critical flaw was also found Qualcomm’s WLAN component. This WiFi module has a flaw that could theoretically allow an attacker to interfere with the network by arbitrarily shifting packets. As a result, the hacker can perform various types of attacks, including distributed denial of service attacks (Distributed Denial of Service or Distributed Denial of Service). DDoS). The last critical flaw of October is again related to Qualcomm’s WLAN module. This allows a hacker to obtain information without users’ knowledge.
All the breaches mentioned by Google relate to smartphones running Android 8.1, Android 9, Android 10 and Android 11. None of the flaws have been exploited yet. To check if the October patch is already available on your Android smartphone, just go to the menu. Settingsthen go there About the deviceAnd Software update. If there is an update, click Start update.
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