Security issues with devices with Android OS grow year after year. One of the reasons is the large number of users, which potentiates the search for failures, both by researchers who only want to correct them, and by people who want to take advantage of these security holes.
And if Android already has its flaws, imagine the customized versions by companies like Samsung, HTC, LG… It was in one of these changes that Samsung made the company's researchers Repeat have discovered a serious failure in the modem configuration file.
How serious is the flaw?
Taking advantage of this flaw, an attacker can gain access to the camera, microphone, GPS and, even worse, data stored on the phone.
The failure can be resolved with an update, which in principle Samsung should arrange. So far the South Korean company has not yet spoken.
The affected devices are:
- Galaxy Note 2
- Galaxy Note
- Galaxy S3
- Galaxy S2
- Galaxy S
- Nexus S
- Galaxy Nexus
- Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
- Galaxy Tab 2 7
It remains to be seen to what extent this failure has been exploited ...
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