Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Samsung Mobile - CVE-2016-6527
Published: January 18, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39820
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-6527
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Samsung
Affected software:
Samsung Mobile
Samsung Mobile
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
The SmartCall Activity component in Telecom application on Samsung Note device L(5.0/5.1) and M(6.0) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) or possibly gain privileges via a malformed serializable object.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-6527
Install update from vendor's website.