Although many times the company anticipates nobody with very early updates, this time Samsung Galaxy owners are going to have to wait a bit, although it will be a matter of hours or days before it reaches your compatible phone. There is already a model that is receiving it and yours could be the next.
Samsung’s new patch fixes many bugs
This new security patch from September 2023 fixes 62 security vulnerabilities, so hurry up to update your phone as soon as it is available. 4 of them have been marked as critical, and another 19 as high priority.
The manufacturer has fixed 35 security flaws in its devices, and these fixes are already included in the September security patch. Some of the vulnerabilities are in security settings, Samsung keyboard, setup tips, phone app storage and messages, dual messaging, Samsung Knox AI, One UI folder lock feature, weather app, hotspot. WiFi auto login, incoming SMS controller and in lock screen settings.
In its newsletter, Samsung has detailed some of the main fixes in your apps:
- SVE-2023-0495(CVE-2023-30722): Protection mechanism failure in Samsung Blockchain Keystore trustlet bc_tui
- SVE-2023-0667(CVE-2023-30723): Samsung Health Bad Input Validation Vulnerability
- SVE-2023-0812 (CVE-2023-30724): Bad authentication to Gallery
- SVE-2023-0822 (CVE-2023-30725): Bad authentication to Gallery
- SVE-2023-0823(CVE-2023-30726): PendingIntent hijacking vulnerability in GameLauncher
- SVE-2023-0973 (CVE-2023-30728): Intent redirection in PackageInstallerCHN
- SVE-2023-1004(CVE-2023-30729): Incorrect certificate validation in Samsung email
- SVE-2023-0593(CVE-2023-30730): Implicit Intent Hijacking Vulnerability in Camera
All of them are fixed with this new update so hurry up to accept it when it arrives on your phone. Confirm the message that arrives or go to the settings of your phone to the Software update option to download and install the new security patch of this month.
Mobiles that will be updated very soon
It will soon release this security patch for its high-end smartphones such as the ones we have mentioned below. It is a matter of little time, probably hours to receive it:
- Samsung Galaxy S23
- Samsung Galaxy S22
- Samsung Galaxy S21
- Samsung Galaxy S20
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4
- Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5
Afterwards, it will gradually start to expand among mid-range phones to later reach compatible entry-level models. By now we have known that it is already reaching the Galaxy A14 5G in Malaysia.
If the update arrives on your Samsung phone, accept it as soon as possible to improve its security and correct many problems that could be affecting you. In addition to the best security ones, there could be some others that have not been communicated.
It will probably be a matter of hours, at most a few days, before it begins to rolling out this update gradually, first for the most current high-end and then gradually reaching other devices. If you have one of the models to which the update is already arriving and it has not yet reached you, do not worry, since these are coming little by little and it will be a matter of very little time.