If it's exploited, bad actors are capable of executing arbitrary code while evading detection due to a renamed process.
  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Here’s the scope of it

    A National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) advisory on the bug describes it as “an issue [that] was discovered in the m2m scaler driver in Samsung Mobile Processor and Wearable Processor Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850, and W920.” A use-after-free bug in the mobile processor ultimately leads to privilege escalation, the agency added.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Urrg! I have one of those CPUs. (Exynos 9820) I don’t want to upgrade with an expensive new phone. I get no longer security updates.

    • ilhamagh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ugh, I’m in the same boat. s10e, I have zero complaint other than the EOL security update. Bought it 2nd hand two years ago.

      There’s nothing in the market with similar price with the spec and size of my current phone.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’d try it, but this is essentially an emergency signalling device and not something I’d like to render inoperable.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Certainly understandable. Wouldnt risk it on my current main device either. Only on a future new or old backup phone

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Pixel phones can have hardware quality issues. Samsung arguably makes the best hardware. Their cameras and screens have always been way ahead of every other phone.

        • Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Grapheneos isn’t rooted by default, and they recommend re-locking the bootloader after installing it, so most banking apps work.

          • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Is there a confirmed list of apps that will not function in Graphene? I searched around, and all I get is “some bank apps dont work” but your the first I see mention cashapp specifically. I could probably work around Cashapp, but I’d at least need zelle/venmo etc. Due to my credit union app more than likely not being compatible.

            I really want to move to the platform, but I don’t currently have a Pixel, so I can’t just try it out. Before going out, buying a Pixel, loading Graphene and finding out I can’t use my banking app or the very least the other money apps I’d just like a heads up.

            In the end if I need a backup phone then so be it.