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Android is particularly troublesome here with the number of phones out there receiving no updates, and just a single download away from being exploited. For me
by nickcw 3y ago
Android is particularly troublesome here with the number of phones out there receiving no updates, and just a single download away from being exploited.
For me, personally, it's a race to see if Google can get this patched for my Pixel 5 before security updates stop in October.
- izacus 3y agoBased on Mishaal's post on Twitter (https://twitter.com/mishaalrahman/status/1705934521751806033 https://twitter.com/mishaalrahman/status/1705934521751806033), the patch will be in SPL released marked with 2023-10-06 date. Pixel 5 should still qualifiy for it.
- changelink 3y agoI just checked, and in the last 30 minutes a update has become available for my Pixel 5. The security bulletin doesn't reference this CVE specifically but does mention a critical vulnerability that could lead to RCE.
- jacquesm 3y agoThe problem is that they'll use the opportunity to schlep a bunch of non-security related stuff into the update as well. That's the thing that really bothers me about these, that you can't say just the security patches and hold the telemetry/marketing/spyware/adware/crapware/malware/etc.
- izacus 3y agoUpdates outside the quarterly feature drops on Pixels are pretty much exclusively security patches so I have no idea what you're talking about.
- jacquesm 3y agoThis is what I'm talking about: https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/11412553 https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/1141... Good luck setting things up in such a way that you only get security patches and not a whole bunch of 'improvements' to go with them.
- josefresco 3y agoGoogle cut off my Chromebook about 8 months back but still pushes what I'm assuming are security updates (although they've slowed as of late).
- matthewdgreen 3y agoA phone released in October 2020 is about to stop getting security updates?!
- jefftk 3y agoPixel used to be 3y of security updates. Starting with the 6 (2021) they switched to 5y. https://endoflife.date/pixel https://endoflife.date/pixel
- greesil 3y agoSupposedly 7 years soon. Maybe. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23888831/pixel-8-pro-seven-years-software-support-price-rumors-leak https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23888831/pixel-8-pro-seve...
- sva_ 3y agoIt appears so: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=%2Cpixel-xl-a-a-g-a-g https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#z...
- Helmut10001 3y agoCan this be fixed with a rooted Pixel with Lineage OS? Looks like this is it [1] and it looks like LineageOS 17 is supported even back to Pixel 3a [2]. [1]: https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android/+/366611 https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android/+/366611 [2] https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/lineageos-17-for-pixel-3a.3987513/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/lineageos-17-for-pixel-3a...
- KronisLV 3y ago> A phone released in October 2020 is about to stop getting security updates?! I actually looked into it, my previous phone was released in June 2020. The last security update for the phone came out in January 2022. I'm not sure whether they're just updating things infrequently or whether that model is abandoned altogether, but neither would speak highly of the Android support landscape for non-flagship phones. This ends up being kind of silly: if I want to have a mostly secure backup device (for 2FA and my bank/eID apps), then I probably need two comparatively recent devices, since a 5 year old budget phone would no longer quite do as a temporary daily driver, in case I'd lose my main phone.
- ryukoposting 3y agoMy phone came out in 2017. I'm still on Android 8. There's an update to Android 9.1 available somewhere, but AT&T never got around to porting it to their crapware-riddled fork.
- samtheprogram 3y agoGalaxy S8?
- ryukoposting 3y agoLG V35.