On December 15, 2012, a member of the XDA Developer Forums going by the handle "alephzain" published a vulnerability affecting all Android devices using the Samsung Exynos chipset and running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or greater. Affected devices include the extremely popular international variant of the Galaxy S3 (the North American version is not affected because it uses a Qualcomm chipset instead), and Exynos variants of the Galaxy S2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, and Galaxy Tab.
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