Race condition in Google Android - CVE-2017-18647
Published: April 7, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU34532
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-18647
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Android
Google Android
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with M(6,x) and N(7.0) software. The TA Scrypto v1.0 implementation in Secure Driver has a race condition with a resultant buffer overflow. The Samsung IDs are SVE-2017-8973, SVE-2017-8974, and SVE-2017-8975 (November 2017).
How to mitigate CVE-2017-18647
Install update from vendor's website.