Google warned customers relating to vulnerabilities discovered in sure Samsung chips together with in dozens of Android units, wearables and automobiles.
Google’s Project Zero head Tim Willis wrote in a weblog publish on Thursday that safety researchers reported 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos modems produced by Samsung from late 2022 to early 2023.
Four of essentially the most extreme vulnerabilities allowed for internet-to-baseband distant code execution, permitting an attacker to “remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction and require only that the attacker know the victim’s phone number.”
“With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely,” Willis warned.
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The 14 different vulnerabilities weren’t fairly as extreme, as they require both a malicious cellular community operator or an attacker with native entry to the gadget.
Willis mentioned that the affected merchandise probably embody Samsung cellular units in the S22, M33, M13, M12, A71, A53, A33, A21s, A13, A12 and A04 sequence, in addition to these from Vivo in the S16, S15, S6, X70, X60 and X30 sequence. Also included have been the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 sequence of units from Google and any automobiles that use the Exynos Auto T5123 chipset.
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Google mentioned that patch timelines would fluctuate per producer. Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone tweeted that Samsung had 90 days to patch the bugs, however hasn’t executed so but. The Pixel units are already patched with the March safety replace.
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In the meantime, customers who want to shield themselves from the baseband distant code execution vulnerabilities in the publish can flip off Wi-Fi calling and Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) in their gadget settings.
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“As always, we encourage end users to update their devices as soon as possible, to ensure that they are running the latest builds that fix both disclosed and undisclosed security vulnerabilities,” Willis added.