Samsung Mobile Device Design Vulnerabilities

Samsung mobile devices are smart mobile devices released by Samsung in South Korea.Android N is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA. A security vulnerability exists in Samsung mobile devices using the Android N 7.x version, whi...

CVE-2018-9142

On Samsung mobile devices with N7.x software, attackers can install an arbitrary APK in the Secure Folder SD Card area because of faulty validation of a package signature and package name, aka SVE-2017-10932...

CVE-2018-9139

On Samsung mobile devices with N7.x software, a buffer overflow in the vision service allows code execution in a privileged process via a large frame size, aka SVE-2017-11165...

CVE-2018-5210

On Samsung mobile devices with N7.x software and Exynos chipsets, attackers can conduct a Trustlet stack overflow attack for arbitrary TEE code execution, in conjunction with a brute-force attack to discover unlock information PIN, password, or pattern. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10733...

Android system_server Code Loading Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit for Android platform in category local exploits Android: Code loading bypasses in systemserver As of Android Nougat, a new set of SELinux rules have been added which are designed to prevent systemserver from loading arbitrary code into its address-space. This has been enforced by adding t...

Google Shares Android Nougat, Safe Browsing Security Enhancements

Google this week shared with developers security enhancements it has added to the new Nougat version of Android and additional security features for webmasters via Safe Browsing to help pinpoint harmful content on websites. Under the banner of its nine-year-long Safe Browsing initiative, Google...

Google Updates CA Trust Mechanisms in Android Nougat

Google last week announced changes in the way it will handle trusted Certificate Authorities in Nougat, the latest version of the Android operating system. The changes are expected to cut into the likelihood of a successful man-in-the-middle attack, or a device falling victim to an...