Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge start receiving October security patch
If you're not familiar with the contents of the October patch, here are a few details announced by Samsung in the first week of the month.
First of all, Samsung confirmed it will provide 7 vulnerabilities and exposures items, “in order to improve customer's confidence on security of Samsung Mobile devices.” The current security update contains all these bug fixes in addition to Google's own patches.
The second SVE is a kernel crash via fb0(DECON), which seems to affect all devices that are powered by Samsung's Exynos chipsets. The problem concerns a vulnerability in frame buffer interface, which results in system crash accessed by a malicious graphics user.
Obviously, since some of the these SVE items are hardware-specific, some might not be included in the October security update. Also, they might have been part of a previous maintenance releases, so consumers should be covered either way.
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