Input validation error in Google Android - CVE-2018-21091

 

Input validation error in Google Android - CVE-2018-21091

Published: April 8, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34527
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-21091
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Android

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with M(6.x) and N(7.x) software. Telecom has a System Crash via abnormal exception handling. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10906 (January 2018).


How to mitigate CVE-2018-21091

Install update from vendor's website.

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