Critical vulnerability found in Samsung smartphones

Samsung smartphones have found a vulnerability associated with the Exynos chip. This is reported by SamMobile.

The blog of the Google Project Zero team clarifies that about 18 critical vulnerabilities found in the phones of the Korean brand are associated with the Exynos processor. According to experts, system flaws allow attackers to gain access to the victim’s smartphone using a phone number.

The material says that the problems affected the devices of the Galaxy S22, Galaxy M33, Galaxy M13, Galaxy M12, Galaxy A71, Galaxy A53, Galaxy A33, Galaxy A21, Galaxy A13, Galaxy A12 and Galaxy A04 lines. Also, vulnerabilities were found on all gadgets that have an Exynos W920 processor – this is a chip for wearable devices.

Project Zero engineers said they reported problems to Samsung and waited for a 90-day pause. However, after the specified time, the company’s specialists did not fix the problem – in this regard, Google disclosed information about vulnerabilities.

According to engineers, until Samsung released a security patch, owners of smartphones of these series should temporarily stop using voice calls over Wi-Fi and turn off the VoLTE function.

In November, the Google team warned users of popular Android smartphones about five dangerous vulnerabilities. To eliminate them, phone owners should install security patches on their gadgets.