Google patches a major Pixel security flaw, along with dozens more

Google has announced that it patched 50 Pixel security vulnerabilities with the June 2024 security patch, including a major flaw that hackers could (and did) exploit.

Google patched up a major Pixel security flaw

The company mentioned this high-level security vulnerability as ‘CVE-2024-32896’, and it’s part of the Pixel Firmware. Well, it was until Google patched it up.

Google did not release any additional information about the flaw itself, but the company did say that “there are indications that CVE-2024-32896 may be under limited, targeted exploitation”. In other words, wrongdoers have exploited it thus far.

50 security vulnerabilities have been fixed altogether

Now, as already mentioned, this security patch tackles 50 security vulnerabilities. This major flaw is a part of them, as are five that are related to a number of components in Qualcomm chipsets.

With this update, Google patched the denial-of-service (DoS) issue which impacted Modem, and numerous information disclosure flaws that affected GsmSs, ACPM, and Trusty.

The company is rolling out this update to a number of its devices, as we speak. It is rolling out as an OTA (Over-The-Air) update to the Pixel 5a 5G and newer smartphones. Basically all devices that are eligible to get Google’s security update at this point.

These are the devices that are getting the security update

To be more accurate, the devices receiving the update are the Pixel 5a 5G, Pixel 6a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, and the Pixel Fold.

Many of you are probably also aware that this is also Google’s Pixel Feature Drop update. Not all of these phones are getting those new features, though. Some of them are only eligible to get security updates at this point. The rollout is also gradual, as per usual, so the update could take a while to arrive to your device.