#GrapheneOS receives third Android Security Acknowledgement from Google this year. This time for a high-severity Bluetooth vulnerability:

Google has listed the CVE-2024-23694 vulnerability we reported in the security acknowledgements for May 2024:

https://source.android.com/docs/security/overview/acknowledgements

This is the Bluetooth issue we found with memory tagging which they assigned a High severity. We fixed this on March 9th. This vulnerability isn't listed in the baseline Android Security Bulletin despite being an Android Open Source Project issue. It will likely be listed in the Pixel Update Bulletin which should be today with the monthly update of AOSP and the Pixel OS.

This vulnerability only impacts Android 14 QPR2 and later. It's possible they only list issues impacting the initial release of Android 14 in Android Security Bulletins and put the rest in Pixel bulletins. It's odd how Pixel bulletins are mostly issues impacting other devices.

Last month, Pixels fixed 2 vulnerabilities we reported which were both classified as High severity and were both exploited in the wild by forensic companies to extract data on smartphones. Both also impact non-Pixels but were only fixed for Pixels and listed in the Pixel bulletin.

We understand why they didn't list those firmware patches in the Android Security Bulletin (ASB) since other devices with the same issues need their own unique firmware patches for them.

The AOSP 14 QPR2 Bluetooth big not being listed means ASB is less complete than we thought though.

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Thank you.

What is the impact for a graphene user on pixel 8 ?

None

It was patched by us months ago, within days after Android 14 QPR2 was released. Pixel 8 / 8 Pro supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) which GrapheneOS uses. Whenever something like this happens then what causes the memory corruption would crash. MTE is also how we noticed it so quickly. We have no reason to expect it was exploited anywhere.

TY I appreciate your work

As we expected, it's listed in the Pixel Update Bulletin despite being an Android Open Source Project vulnerability and patch:

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2024-05-01

Android Security Bulletins only cover the subset of High/Critical severity patches backported to the baseline yearly releases.

(this has been pushed in the latest GrapheneOS update)

Our 4th release for the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL is now available. It adds two Bluetooth bug fixes missing from the temporary Android Open Source Project branch for 9th generation Pixels. One of those is a Bluetooth issue we reported.

See more about how #GrapheneOS exploit mitigations help identify vulnerabilities upstream which we report and improve Android security for everyone:

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