Input validation error in Google Android - CVE-2017-18663

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Input validation error in Google Android - CVE-2017-18663

Published: April 7, 2020 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU34547
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-2017-18663
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 N(7.x) software. Because of missing Intent exception handling, system_server can have a NullPointerException with a crash of a system process. The Samsung IDs are SVE-2017-9122, SVE-2017-9123, SVE-2017-9124, and SVE-2017-9126 (July 2017).


How to mitigate CVE-2017-18663

Install update from vendor's website.

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