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Like Microsoft and its Patch Tuesday, Google publishes a monthly security bulletin to correct the flaws identified within Android.

A rule to which the Mountain View firm has not deviated in this month of September since it has just published its security patch of the month.

A relatively large patch since it fills no less than 52 security breaches.

A relatively large number of security vulnerabilities, especially since eight of them were deemed critical.

The remaining 44 also pose a high risk to user safety.

The exploitation of these flaws could therefore potentially have serious consequences and the risk is still present as long as the patch has not been installed on all smartphones.

A very worrying flaw

One of these flaws is particularly worrying since it allows malware to be installed on Android phones without having to have the smartphone in hand.

"The most serious of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the Media Framework component that could allow a remote attacker using a specially crafted file to execute arbitrary code in the context of a privileged process," Google explains in a report. post on his blog.

Fortunately, there is no indication that it was exploited.

Note that Google warns smartphone manufacturers of its findings long before publishing its report, so that they can make corrections.

However, if the Android patch is available for download, the availability of the update is left to the discretion of smartphone manufacturers.

Their task is to provide a corrective update on their devices.

So remember to check your smartphone for updates, from its settings, “About” options of the device, “Software update” tab.

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