Google patches 129 Android security flaws — including a potentially dangerous Qualcomm zero-day


Google has released a new security update which fixed 129 vulnerabilities in the Android ecosystem, including 10 critical-severity bugs, and one high-severity issue apparently being exploited in the wild.

In a security advisory, Google said that it fixed a buffer over-read vulnerability in the Graphics component (an open-source Qualcomm module). The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-21385, was given a severity score of 7.8/10. “Memory corruption when adding user-supplied data without checking available buffer space,” Qualcomm said in a separate advisory.

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