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Android 17 ships with 22 security holes patched from day one

Google has fixed 22 security vulnerabilities in the first version of Android 17. According to Heise, several of them were rated as "high" severity and could have allowed attackers to remotely execute malicious code.

Android 17 ships with 22 security holes patched from day one
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The security patches are available with the patch level 2026-07-01 and have also been released in the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The vulnerabilities affected the operating system’s framework and system. Attackers could have exploited unspecified vectors to remotely execute malicious code, gain elevated user privileges, access confidential data, or crash the device via a denial-of-service attack.

Google released Android 17 on June 16 for Pixel smartphones. The warning does not indicate whether older Android versions are also affected. The developers said they published the information for transparency reasons.

Source: www.heise.de