Google on Monday announced patches for more than 40 vulnerabilities as part of Android’s November 2024 set of security updates, including two flaws that have been exploited in attacks.
Tracked as CVE-2024-43047, the first of the exploited security defects was disclosed last month, after Amnesty International and Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) found evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.
Qualcomm released patches for the issue last month, warning that it affects dozens of chipsets and describing it as a high-severity use-after-free bug in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service.
“Patches for the issue affecting FASTRPC driver have been made available to OEMs together with a strong recommendation to deploy the update on affected devices as soon as possible,” Qualcomm said last month.
The fact that CVE-2024-43047 was discovered by Google and Amnesty suggests that it has likely been exploited by a commercial spyware vendor against Android devices.
The second exploited vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43093, is a high-severity elevation of privilege bug in Android’s Framework component. It also impacts the Documents UI component of Project Mainline, which was updated through Google Play.
While warning that it has indicators that both CVE-2024-43047 and CVE-2024-43093 “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”, Google has not shared specific information on the observed attacks.
CVE-2024-43093 was addressed with the first part of Android’s November 2024 security updates, which arrive on devices as a 2024-11-01 security patch level, addressing a total of 17 high-severity vulnerabilities in the Framework and System components.
The second part of the update, which arrives on devices as the 2024-11-05 security patch level, contains fixes for 23 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-43047. It also includes updated kernel versions, Google notes in its advisory.
On Monday, Google also announced that the November 2024 security update for Wear OS contains patches for two bugs in addition to fixes for the flaws described in Android’s November 2024 bulletin.
The Android Automotive OS update bulletin for November 2024 contains no new patches aside from those in the Android bulletin.
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