Samsung smartphone with Exynos affected by security flaws in Mali, what you must know

Samsung: Numerous security flaws now exist that affect millions of Samsung phones using Exynos chipsets, or more precisely, Exynos chipsets with Mali GPUs. A physical page us-after-free condition can result from one vulnerability, while another can cause physical memory addresses to be revealed. Other vulnerabilities can cause kernel memory corruption.

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what can happen because of these flaws?

These flaws might let an attacker access physical pages even after they have been given back to the system and continue to read and write them. Or, to put it another way, an attacker with native code execution in an app might take complete control of the system and get beyond Android OS's permission architecture.

ARM was made aware of these security holes in the months of June and July. A month later, ARM patched these Mali-related system vulnerabilities, but as of the time of this writing, no smartphone OEMs had done the same.

The Companies other than Samsung which are affected by these security vulnerabilities.

Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo are just a few of the smartphone manufacturers who use the ARM Mali GPU.the exploit were originally discovered as it was targeting the Pixel 6. Additionally, Google has not corrected this flaw.

The Galaxy S22 series and Snapdragon-powered Samsung devices are unaffected by this issue. Yes, the latter has an Xclipse 920 graphics chip rather than a Mali GPU, though it does have an Exynos chipset in select areas.

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