BlackBerry releases August 2018 Android Security Update for BlackBerry Android devices

BlackBerry has today rolled out the August 2018 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-2018-9445 Denial of Service in Framework CVE-2018-9438 Elevation of Privilege in Framework CVE-2018-9458 Information Disclosure in Framework CVE-2018-9451 Remote Code Execution in Media framework CVE-2018-9427 Denial of Service in Media framework CVE-2018-9444 Denial of Service in Media framework CVE-2018-9437 Remote Code Execution in System CVE-2018-9446 Remote Code Execution in System CVE-2018-9450 Denial of Service in System CVE-2018-9455 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9436 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9454 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9448 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9453 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components CVE-2017-18249 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components CVE-2018-9465 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components CVE-2018-11260 Vulnerability in Qualcomm closed-source components CVE-2017-18304 Vulnerability in Qualcomm closed-source components CVE-2017-18303 Vulnerability in Qualcomm closed-source components CVE-2017-18301 Information Disclosure in Framework CVE-2017-1000100 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9435 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9461 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9449 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9457 Information Disclosure in System CVE-2018-9441 Denial of Service in System CVE-2017-13322 Denial of Service in System CVE-2018-9447 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components CVE-2018-9439 Elevation of Privilege in Kernel components CVE-2018-1068 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components CVE-2018-11263 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components CVE-2018-5910 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components CVE-2018-5908 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components CVE-2018-5905 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components CVE-2018-5904 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm components CVE-2017-18306 Information Disclosure in Qualcomm components CVE-2017-18307 Elevation of Privilege in Qualcomm components CVE-2017-9711

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 August 5, 2018 or later.

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