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March security bulletin lists 2 vulnerabilities as actively exploited in the wild:

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-03-01

CVE-2024-43093 patch was in Android 15 QPR1 released in December. It's just being backported now.

CVE-2024-50302 doesn't impact GrapheneOS due to our exploit protections.

Android Security Bulletins are very commonly misinterpreted as being Android's monthly security patches. They're actually backports of most High and Critical severity patches to older releases of Android: 12, 12L, 13, 14 and 15. Yes, Android 15 is an older release of Android.

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Thank you for this little accessible explanation! I still have problems grasping which Android update (where I mean "update" in a very general sense) means whar exactly. There are so many, the ASP, AOSP releases, Pixel specific ones... a comprehensive table would be so helpful!

"Android 15 is an older release of Android" because the most current QPR is treated as the most current Android?