Buffer overflow in Samsung Mobile - CVE-2018-9143

 

Buffer overflow in Samsung Mobile - CVE-2018-9143

Published: March 30, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU37354
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-9143
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Samsung
Affected software:
Samsung Mobile

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

On Samsung mobile devices with M(6.0) and N(7.x) software, a heap overflow in the sensorhub binder service leads to code execution in a privileged process, aka SVE-2017-10991.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-9143

Install update from vendor's website.

Sources