Google spotted 18 Zero-Day flaws in Samsung Exynos chips

OEMs are most likely to release an OTA update to repair the challenge fairly quickly.

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If you personal an Android smartphone from brands like Samsung, Pixel or Vivo, then your device could be severely compromised. Individuals with poor intentions could take handle of the device just by recognizing your telephone quantity, recommend Google’s in-property safety analysts from Project Zero.

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According to a weblog by Project Zero, hackers can acquire access to choose smartphones from Samsung, Vivo and in-property Pixel smartphones that have as quite a few as 18 -day vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are linked to devices with the Samsung-produced Exynos chip precisely the modem which permits hackers to do remote code execution.

In easier words, hackers can remotely acquire access to choose smartphones with Exynos modems at the baseband level just with the telephone quantity. Not just phones but a couple of other merchandise that use Exynos Auto T5123 chipset are also vulnerable.

Which smartphones are impacted by Exynos modem vulnerability?

The Google Pixel six and Google Pixel 7 series of smartphones are impacted by this compromise this consists of the Pixel 6a, Pixel six, Pixel six Pro, Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.

Similarly, the Samsung Galaxy S22 (assessment) Exynos variants are also impacted along with a couple of other devices like Galaxy M33, Galaxy M13, Galaxy M12s, Galaxy A71, Galaxy A53, Galaxy A33, Galaxy A21s, Galaxy A13, Galaxy A12 and GalaxyA04 series of smartphones.

Lastly, Vivo smartphones such as the Vivo S16, S15, S6, X70, X60 and Vivo X30 series are also impacted by this vulnerability.

Even though a straightforward safety patch from OEM need to repair the challenge customers with the aforementioned smartphones are advised to disable Wi-Fi calling and Voice-more than-LTE (VoLTE) to make their smartphones safe. And update their smartphone as quickly as attainable to make them safe.

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