Samsung Galaxy S9 and Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus had a critical vulnerability discovered the other day due to which users' phones are affected by restarts while using it to surf the Internet. The critical vulnerability was discovered for Samsung Galaxy S9 models that have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip and an Adreno 630 video card, generating a complete restart of the phones simply by visiting a web page.
Samsung Galaxy S9 is the most affected in the case of surfing the Internet using the standard Samsung browser from the Android operating system, the vulnerability blocking the phones and generating their automatic restart. When using the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browsers, the Samsung Galaxy S9 phones remain only with the applications blocked for a few seconds, Opera completely blocking the phones, while the Firefox application closes by itself, but does not generate a restart of the phone.
Samsung Galaxy S9: Phones BLOCKED due to a CRITICAL Problem
Samsung Galaxy S9 have problems with the way the Adreno 630 video card renders image shaders, the driver used for this component is not very well thought out, so can be exploited in this way. You can see in the video clip above how serious the problem is that those from Samsung failed to discover in the Samsung Galaxy S9 phones that have a Snapdragon 845 chip, those with an Exynos chip not being affected, at least by this vulnerability, but others can be easily discovered.
"During their testing of the Snapdragon Samsung Galaxy S9, GraphicsFuzz found an error in the Adreno 630's graphics driver that allows them to trigger a whole-phone reboot via a valid WebGL Internet page when browsing with the stock Samsung Internet browser."
Samsung Galaxy S9 is the most popular Android smartphone of the moment, and such a serious problem discovered for its operating system could generate very big problems with sales, which are small anyway. Unfortunately, the Samsung Galaxy S9 problem lies in the way the drivers for the Adreno 630 video card were thought, but the good part in this situation is that a simple update of the Android operating system can solve it, but no one knows when it might come she from Samsung.