Samsung has launched its month-to-month safety updates for Android, together with a repair for a safety vulnerability that it stated has been exploited in zero-day assaults.
The vulnerability, CVE-2025-21043 (CVSS rating: 8.8), issues an out-of-bounds write that would end in arbitrary code execution.
“Out-of-bounds Write in libimagecodec.quram.so previous to SMR Sep-2025 Launch 1 permits distant attackers to execute arbitrary code,” Samsung stated in an advisory. “The patch fastened the wrong implementation.”
In keeping with a 2020 report from Google Challenge Zero, libimagecodec.quram.so is a closed-source picture parsing library developed by Quramsoft that implements help for varied picture codecs.
The critical-rated challenge, per the South Korean electronics big, impacts Android variations 13, 14, 15, and 16. The vulnerability was privately disclosed to the corporate on August 13, 2025.
Samsung didn’t share any specifics on how the vulnerability is being exploited in assaults and who could also be behind these efforts. Nevertheless, it acknowledged that “an exploit for this challenge has existed within the wild.”
The event comes shortly after Google stated it resolved two safety flaws in Android (CVE-2025-38352 and CVE-2025-48543) that it stated have been exploited in focused assaults.
