covering the week stop textin sleight linux bias google has pushed out security patches for dozens of vulnerabilities in its Android mobile operating system two of which could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code with extremely high system rights in some cases the malware could run with highly elevated privileges a possibility that raises the severity of the bugs that's because the bugs located in the Android system component could enable a specially crafted transmission to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process in all Google release patches for at least 34 security flaws although some of the vulnerabilities were present only in devices available from manufacturer Qualcomm to vulnerabilities ranked as critical in Google's June security bulletins are among four system flaws located in the Android system the other two are ranked with a severity of high the critical vulnerabilities reside in Android versions 8 through the most recent release of 11 an advisory from the multi-state information sharing and analysis Center said these vulnerabilities could be exploited through multiple methods such as email web browsing and MMS when processing media files depending on the privileges associated with the application an attacker could then install programs view change or delete data or create new accounts with full user rights vulnerabilities with a severity rating of high affected the Android media framework the android framework and the Android kernel other vulnerabilities were contained in components shipped in devices from Qualcomm the two qualcomm specific critical flaws residing closed-source components the severity of other qualcomm flaws were rated as high anyone with an Android powered device should check in settings to see if fixes or updates are available [Music]