Number: AV16-139
Date: September 07 2016
Purpose
The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to the Android Security Bulletin for September.
Assessment
The Android Security Bulletin addresses security updates for 47 vulnerabilities (7 Critical, 23 High, 17 Moderate). Those viewed Critical are so given the possibility of remote code execution vulnerabilities and/or elevation of privilege vulnerabilities.
CVE References: CVE-2016-3861, CVE-2016-3862, CVE-2016-3863, CVE-2016-3870, CVE-2016-3871, CVE-2016-3872, CVE-2016-3875, CVE-2016-3876, CVE-2016-3899, CVE-2016-3878, CVE-2016-3879, CVE-2016-3880, CVE-2016-3881, CVE-2016-3883, CVE-2016-3884, CVE-2016-3885, CVE-2016-3886, CVE-2016-3887, CVE-2016-3888, CVE-2016-3889, CVE-2016-3890, CVE-2016-3895, CVE-2016-3896, CVE-2016-3897, CVE-2016-3898, CVE-2014-9529, CVE-2016-4470, CVE-2013-7446, CVE-2016-3134, CVE-2016-3951, CVE-2014-4655, CVE-2016-2053, CVE-2016-3864, CVE-2016-3858, CVE-2016-4805, CVE-2016-4805, CVE-2016-3865, CVE-2016-3859, CVE-2016-3866, CVE-2016-3867, CVE-2016-3868, CVE-2016-3869, CVE-2016-1583, CVE-2016-3873, CVE-2016-3874, CVE-2015-1465, CVE-2015-5364, CVE-2015-8839, CVE-2016-3892, CVE-2016-3893, CVE-2016-3894, CVE-2016-4998, CVE-2015-2922, CVE-2016-5340, CVE-2016-2059.
Suggested Action
CCIRC recommends that system administrators look with their respected Android phone vendor and carrier when the update will be available and test and deploy the vendor-released updates to affected applications accordingly.
References:
Android web site: https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html