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The latest Android update provides documentation on 33 security bugs, some serious enough to cause privilege escalation or information disclosure compromises.
The most important of these is a bug in the Media framework that could lead to elevation of privilege on Android 8.1 and 9 devices, or information disclosure, on Android 10 and 11. The issue is tracked as CVE-2021-0519.
“The most severe of these issues is a high security vulnerability in the Media Framework component that could enable a local malicious application to bypass operating system protections that isolate application data from other applications,” according to a Google advisory.