Android users are being told to patch their Android OS Nougat (7.0), Oreo (8.0) and Pie (9.0) as soon as updates are available after a bug related to PNG images was found.
From csoonline.com
Your Android could be pwned by simply viewing an innocent-looking image – be it from browsing the internet or an image received via text – according to the Android Security Bulletin issued this month. While this certainly doesn’t apply to all images, Google discovered that a maliciously crafted PNG image could be used to hijack a wide variety of Androids – those running Android Nougat (7.0), Oreo (8.0), and even the latest Android OS Pie (9.0).
The latest bulletin lists 42 vulnerabilities in total – 11 of which are rated as critical. The most severe critical flaw is in Framework; it “could enable a remote attacker using a specially crafted PNG file to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process.”