Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president of Android, ChromeOS and the Google Play team, jumped on the stage 2020 is written when Samsung introduced its new Galaxy S20 to make it clear that, after all, both companies continue to work together there is a general purpose to continue to make Android a portable reference platform. But that does not mean there will be no conflict between the two companies..
In a recent and comprehensive report – published by the special security division Project Zero from Google, a a series of threats found on Samsung smartphones – Specifically, the report refers to the Samsung Galaxy A50 – apparently related "Unnecessary changes" made by a team of maneroeana engineers at Linux kernel.
Samsung poses significant risk by changing the Linux kernel, according to Google
For some years, Google has been pushing for the idea of getting all Android developers of Android to run a unique Linux kernel, where developers will enter their code using "modules", thus preventing them from being able to modify the kernel code itself as it likes – something, today, required to synchronize software with Hardware for each device. And it is precisely the risk posed by the party Project Zero They are a good reason why Google's plan makes sense.
In a report, Jann Horn explains how Samsung is doing modification of the Linux kernel source code by adding custom drives that allow direct access to the Linux kernel resources. Logically, this change is not analyzed or tested by developers to build the kernel itself.
Perhaps if the change had been analyzed bef ore it was made, it would have been found that, by changing the kernel, Samsung has created a threat
According to Horn, The accident was discovered by Project Zero team in November, and Samsung released a patch that fixes the problem in early February, as well as a February security update.
However, from Google they explain how many years G researchers and engineers have worked for reduce the impact depending on safety which means the freedom of developers when they add their code to the Linux kernel. Efforts are no longer effective if a brand like Samsung continues to change the code at will. In fact, the report argues that these changes are just that needlessly, and even though they have been deleted they will not affect devices since the Linux kernel already includes drivers that allow direct access to Hardware.
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