It's that time of the month again, which means that Google is sending out the October security update and functional updates to its Pixel phones. There were eight patches included with the Android security update dated October 1st fixing issues ranging from critical to moderate. The update dated October 5th patches 19 issues ranging in severity from critical to high. This is the first security update sent since Android 10 was released last month. Google was expected to include a patch to close a zero-day vulnerability that could allow a bad actor to get root access over a phone allowing the attacker to steal data from the device and make changes to the operating system.
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