Galaxy S22 and Pixel 6 Pro are Prone to the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability

Galaxy S22 and Pixel 6 Pro are Prone to the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability

2 years ago
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https://wccftech.com/galaxy-s22-and-pixel-6-pro-are-prone-to-the-dirty-pipe-vulnerability/

Smartphone OS vulnerabilities are nothing new, to be honest. They keep seeing the light of day all the time. However, not all of them are scary or threatening but Dirty Pipe might be. Security researchers and Android lovers around the world have decided to look deeper into it, and this vulnerability can actually be used to gain access to your device and for now, the Galaxy S22 and Pixel 6 Pro are prone to this vulnerability.

Happening to the CVE-2022-0847, there is a vulnerability called Dirty Pipe in the Linux kernel version 5.8 and later. Even though the discovery of this vulnerability happened some time ago, now a Twitter user has demonstrated the exploit implementation around the kernel flaw which can let the attacker gain root shell on the Galaxy S22 and the Google Pixel 6 Pro.