Samsung details February 2023 security patch fixes, improvements

Samsung officially released the February 2023 Android security patch details, revealing the fixes and improvements the latest software update carries for Galaxy devices.

It is worth mentioning that the company has already started delivering the February 2023 security patch software updates to its eligible devices, with Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra customers being the first to grab it.

As per the official information, this month’s security patch addresses a total of 55 vulnerabilities and exposures that were harming the devices’ security and their users’ privacy. Of these, 5 CVEs are of Critical level and 43 CVEs are of High level, while no Moderate level of CVE has been fixed.

Whereas, there are 7 Galaxy-specific vulnerabilities fixes which were affecting various One UI apps and services such as the Phone app, Contacts, Fingerprint scanner, Window Manager Service, Secure folder in recent, and more.

You can check out all the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) from Google’s Android security bulletin and Samsung’s Vulnerabilities and Exposures (SVEs) for Galaxy devices below:

Samsung February 2023 Security Patch Details:

CVE fixes:

Critical

• CVE-2022-42719, CVE-2022-42721, CVE-2022-42720, CVE-2022-41674, CVE-2022-22088

High

• CVE-2022-20235, CVE-2023-20928, CVE-2022-2959, CVE-2022-32636, CVE-2022-32637, CVE-2022-25746, CVE-2022-23960, CVE-2022-25725, CVE-2022-33284, CVE-2022-33286, CVE-2022-33276, CVE-2022-33285, CVE-2022-44426, CVE-2022-44425, CVE-2022-44427, CVE-2022-44428, CVE-2022-44431, CVE-2022-44429, CVE-2022-44432, CVE-2022-44430, CVE-2022-44435, CVE-2022-44437, CVE-2022-44434, CVE-2022-44436, CVE-2022-44438, CVE-2022-20443, CVE-2022-20551, CVE-2023-20934, CVE-2023-20942, CVE-2023-20943, CVE-2023-20944, CVE-2023-20948, CVE-2023-20933, CVE-2022-20481, CVE-2022-43680, CVE-2023-20939, CVE-2023-20945, CVE-2023-20946, CVE-2023-20932, CVE-2022-20455, CVE-2020-27059, CVE-2022-20441, CVE-2022-20451

Moderate

• None

Already included in previous updates

• CVE-2021-35097, CVE-2021-35113, CVE-2021-35134, CVE-2022-33274, CVE-2022-33252, CVE-2022-33253, CVE-2022-33283, CVE-2022-20006

Not applicable to Samsung devices

• CVE-2022-32635, CVE-2022-33266, CVE-2022-33255, CVE-2023-20940

SVE fixes:

• SVE-2022-2738(CVE-2023-21440), SVE-2022-2738(CVE-2023-21440), SVE-2022-2546(CVE-2023-21438), SVE-2022-2328(CVE-2023-21437), SVE-2022-2296(CVE-2023-21436), SVE-2022-2195(CVE-2023-21435)