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Tracked as CVE-2021-0397 and affecting Android 8.1, 9, 10, and 11 releases, the security issue could allow an attacker to execute code remotely on a vulnerable device.
“The most severe of these issues is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that could enable a remote attacker using a specially crafted transmission to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process,” Google explains.