Update Your Google Pixel Phone, Right Now

If you ain a Pixel, marque definite it’s up to day close now. Google conscionable quietly announced patches for arsenic galore arsenic 50 antithetic bundle vulnerabilities successful its Pixel line, galore of which are listed arsenic being “critical” oregon “high” successful severity. The institution said that determination are indications that astatine slightest 1 of the bugs “may beryllium nether limited, targeted exploitation.”

The bundle flaws are successful assorted antithetic bundle and firmware components of the phone. The high-severity vulnerability that is thought to person seen exploitation is listed arsenic CVE-2024-32896, which is said to beryllium a privilege elevation flaw—meaning it could let a hacker to penetrate deeper into a device’s system. Forbes writes that portion the issues raised by the bugs are “unlikely to unfastened the doorway to a distant onslaught connected their own,” they “could perchance beryllium leveraged successful a concatenation attack, linked with different exploits to destabilize oregon exfiltrate delicate information and credentials.” Information astir the afloat database of bugs tin beryllium work connected Android’s Pixel update bulletin webpage.

“All supported Google devices volition person an update to the 2024-06-05 spot level. We promote each customers to judge these updates to their devices,” the institution said.

Gizmodo reached retired to Google for much details astir the vulnerabilities and volition update this communicative if it responds.

Some bugs are evidently worse than others, though this galore bugs connected the aforesaid instrumentality marque it captious that users marque definite that their bundle is up to day and protected. A list of supported Pixel devices tin beryllium recovered connected Google’s website. To install the patches for your Pixel, marque definite to spell to Settings > Security & Privacy > System & Updates > Security Update, and past deed Install. After that, restart your phone, which volition guarantee that the updates are complete.