Following last month’s bulletin, Google has released the second battery of security updates for supported devices. OTAs for those devices can be expected to roll out within the next few days.
Similar to January’s security patches, this month’s update provides fixes for several remote code execution vulnerabilities, as well as several privilege elevation vulnerabilities and some compromised aspects of certain Qualcomm components. The most worrisome problem that this bulletin has dealt with was a remote code execution vulnerability at the kernel level of Qualcomm’s cryptography driver, as well as a similar privilege elevation vulnerability with a generic Android kernel. The latter impacted every Nexus and Pixel device since the 5X, as well as all Android One devices. Other less-critical issues like Bluetooth and Nvidia driver vulnerabilities have also been dealt with in this update.
Blackberry has entered the fray again this month and also provided a security bulletin which similarly patches a handful of critical privilege elevation and remote code execution vulnerabilities in Blackberry’s Android devices. Priv owners will be happy to know that Blackberry has indeed included all of the vulnerability fixes mentioned in Google’s February Android Security Bulletin.
Installation
Blackberry has not yet chosen to release factory images or OTAs for download, but users can of course visit Settings>About Phone and should find a February 5th, 2017 security patch available for download.
For Google devices, updates can be found below.
Pixel XL
NOF26V
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Pixel XL (Rogers only)
NOF26W
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Pixel
NOF26V
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Pixel (Rogers only)
NOF26W
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Pixel C
N4F26O
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 6P
N4F26O
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 6P (Verizon only)
N4F26K
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 5X
N4F26O
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 6 (7.1.1)
N6F26R
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 6 (7.0.0)
NBD91Y
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 6 (7.0.0, ATT only)
NBD91Z
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus Player
NMF26X
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 9 (LTE)
N4F26Q
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
Nexus 9 (WiFi)
N4F26Q
Factory Image
Full OTA Image
All updates for the devices above can be found and verified here, for those of you who prefer to verify MD5s before flashing anything.
Source: http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-02-01.html