"Google Warns of Samsung Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild"
"Google Warns of Samsung Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild"
Security researchers at Google's Threat Analysis Group recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Samsung's mobile processors that has been leveraged as part of an exploit chain for arbitrary code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-44068 (CVSS score of 8.1) and patched as part of Samsung's October 2024 set of security fixes, the issue is described as a use-after-free bug that could be abused to escalate privileges on a vulnerable Android device.