Samsung to fix critical security bug on smartphones
Samsung has acknowledged the Dirty Pipe vulnerability, which allows attackers to break into encrypted information on Galaxy smartphones. This is reported by Gadgets 360.
The company said that in the near future they will fix the Dirty Pipe error, which is associated with vulnerabilities in the Android OS kernel. When downloading a certain malicious application, a critical flaw allows attackers to obtain information from Galaxy smartphones, including encrypted data. Among the affected devices were the Galaxy S22 flagships.
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“We are already working on developing security fixes for Galaxy devices running Android 12 and will soon release an update to address this issue,” the company said. However, the corporation could not specify when exactly the update that corrects the critical flaw will be released and which devices will receive it.
The vulnerability of the Linux kernel, which also affected the Android OS, drew the attention of security researcher Max Kellermann (Max Kellermann). The bug has been filed under CVE-2022-0847. It allowed access to user files at the system level. The specialist was able to reproduce the error on a Google Pixel smartphone, and the vulnerability was also confirmed on Samsung Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+ and Galaxy S22 Ultra devices.
At the end of February, Israeli researchers found a hackable bug in tens of millions of Samsung smartphones. According to experts, the vulnerability affected the devices of the Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9, Galaxy S10, Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21 series.
Source: Lenta
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