Samsung has launched its month-to-month safety updates for Android, together with a repair for a safety vulnerability that it mentioned has been exploited in zero-day assaults.
The vulnerability, CVE-2025-21043 (CVSS rating: 8.8), issues an out-of-bounds write that might 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 mentioned in an advisory. “The patch fastened the inaccurate implementation.”
In accordance with a 2020 report from Google Mission Zero, libimagecodec.quram.so is a closed-source picture parsing library developed by Quramsoft that implements assist for numerous picture codecs.
The critical-rated subject, per the South Korean electronics large, 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. Nonetheless, it acknowledged that “an exploit for this subject has existed within the wild.”
The event comes shortly after Google mentioned it resolved two safety flaws in Android (CVE-2025-38352 and CVE-2025-48543) that it mentioned have been exploited in focused assaults.
