Samsung Has Over 70 Bug Fixes for Your Galaxy Phone

The good thing about using a device made by a major company is the updates are usually reliable and effective. So it is with Samsung: The company’s January update comes with more than 70 bug fixes for your Galaxy phone. Whether you use your phone for business or for your personal life, if you haven’t updated yet, do so ASAP.

If you have a Samsung Galaxy S23, you’ll receive firmware version S91xBXXS3BWL3. If you have a Galaxy S22, you get version S90xBXXS7DWL3. Finally, Galaxy S21 users will see version G99xBXXS9FWL9. These aren’t the only phones to receive the update, either: Galaxy Z Flip 5, Z Fold 5, Z Flip 4, Z Fold 4, A52 (5G) and Note 20 all get the update. No matter which phone you have, the update will be around 400MB to download.

While all issues patched are important, only one is labeled as “Critical.” That would be one Samsung tracks as CVE-2022-40507. It isn’t clear what exactly this critical vulnerability is, or whether it has a known exploit, but Samsung did share other issues patched in the update. There was an issue that would allow bad actors to establish a Bluetooth pairing process without any action on your part; Samsung DeX users could take advantage of a vulnerability that allowed access to other user’s notifications in multi-user situations.

While not all of the 70+ bug fixes are as user-facing or flashy, it’s important for the overall stability of your device to install the January update as soon as possible. Again, we don’t know exactly what the details are about this particular vulnerability, so it could put your business data at risk to use a Galaxy phone that isn’t fully up to date.

It’s possible your phone updated on its own. However, to check, or to update your phone manually, you can go to Settings -> Software update.