Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in LG webOS running on its smart televisions that could be exploited to bypass authorization and gain root access on the devices.
The findings come from Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered and reported the flaws in November 2023. The issues were fixed by LG as part of updates released on March 22, 2024.
The vulnerabilities are tracked from CVE-2023-6317 through CVE-2023-6320 and impact the following versions of webOS -
webOS 4.9.7 - 5.30.40 running on LG43UM7000PLA
webOS 5.5.0 - 04.50.51 running on OLED55CXPUA
webOS 6.3.3-442 (kisscurl-kinglake) - 03.36.50 running on OLED48C1PUB
webOS 7.3.1-43 (mullet-mebin) - 03.33.85 running on OLED55A23LA
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The findings come from Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered and reported the flaws in November 2023. The issues were fixed by LG as part of updates released on March 22, 2024.
The vulnerabilities are tracked from CVE-2023-6317 through CVE-2023-6320 and impact the following versions of webOS -
webOS 4.9.7 - 5.30.40 running on LG43UM7000PLA
webOS 5.5.0 - 04.50.51 running on OLED55CXPUA
webOS 6.3.3-442 (kisscurl-kinglake) - 03.36.50 running on OLED48C1PUB
webOS 7.3.1-43 (mullet-mebin) - 03.33.85 running on OLED55A23LA
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