New cold boot attack affects seven years of LG Android smartphones

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South Korean phone manufacturer LG has released a security update last month to fix a vulnerability that impacts its Android smartphones sold over the past seven years.

The vulnerability, tracked under the identifier of CVE-2020-12753, impacts the bootloader component that ships with LG smartphones.
LG has released a patch for this bug in the LVE-SMP-200006 security update, which the company released in early May 2020.

Device owners who have a daily threat model that includes losing access to their LG smartphone should look into applying the LVE-SMP-200006 update.
 

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