Google releases June 2016 Android Security Bulletin and Nexus Images

Google has released the June 2016 Android Security Bulletin. Partners have had access to the warnings in this month’s bulletin since May 2 or earlier.

Alongside the bulletin, Google have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air (OTA) update. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site. Source code patches for these issues will be released to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository in the next 48 hours.

The table below contains a list of security vulnerabilities, the Common Vulnerability and Exposures ID (CVE), their assessed severity and whether or not Nexus devices are affected.

The severity assessment is based on the effect that exploiting the vulnerability would possibly have on an affected device, assuming the platform and service mitigations are disabled for development purposes or successfully bypassed. [table style=”table-striped”]

Issue CVE Severity Affects Nexus? Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Mediaserver CVE-2016-2463 Critical Yes Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in libwebm CVE-2016-2464 Critical Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Video Driver CVE-2016-2465 Critical Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Sound Driver CVE-2016-2466 CVE-2016-2467 Critical Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm GPU Driver CVE-2016-2468 CVE-2016-2062 Critical Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver CVE-2016-2474 Critical Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver CVE-2016-2475 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Sound Driver CVE-2016-2066 CVE-2016-2469 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Mediaserver CVE-2016-2476 CVE-2016-2477 CVE-2016-2478 CVE-2016-2479 CVE-2016-2480 CVE-2016-2481 CVE-2016-2482 CVE-2016-2483 CVE-2016-2484 CVE-2016-2485 CVE-2016-2486 CVE-2016-2487 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Camera Driver CVE-2016-2061 CVE-2016-2488 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Video Driver CVE-2016-2489 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in NVIDIA Camera Driver CVE-2016-2490 CVE-2016-2491 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver CVE-2016-2470 CVE-2016-2471 CVE-2016-2472 CVE-2016-2473 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in MediaTek Power Management Driver CVE-2016-2492 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in SD Card Emulation Layer CVE-2016-2494 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver CVE-2016-2493 High Yes Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in Mediaserver CVE-2016-2495 High Yes Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in Framework UI CVE-2016-2496 Moderate Yes Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver CVE-2016-2498 Moderate Yes Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Mediaserver CVE-2016-2499 Moderate Yes Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Activity Manager CVE-2016-2500 Moderate Yes

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Android and Google Service Mitigations

This is a summary of the mitigations provided by the Android security platform and service protections such as SafetyNet. These capabilities reduce the likelihood that security vulnerabilities could be successfully exploited on Android.

Exploitation for many issues on Android is made more difficult by enhancements in newer versions of the Android platform. We encourage all users to update to the latest version of Android where possible. The Android Security team actively monitors for abuse with Verify Apps and SafetyNet, which are designed to warn users about Potentially Harmful Applications. Verify Apps is enabled by default on devices with Google Mobile Services, and is especially important for users who install applications from outside of Google Play. Device rooting tools are prohibited within Google Play, but Verify Apps warns users when they attempt to install a detected rooting application—no matter where it comes from. Additionally, Verify Apps attempts to identify and block installation of known malicious applications that exploit a privilege escalation vulnerability. If such an application has already been installed, Verify Apps will notify the user and attempt to remove the detected application. As appropriate, Google Hangouts and Messenger applications do not automatically pass media to processes such as Mediaserver.

Full details of the June 2016 Android Security Bulletin is available here.