Input validation error in Samsung Mobile - CVE-2017-5350

 

Input validation error in Samsung Mobile - CVE-2017-5350

Published: January 12, 2017 / Updated: August 9, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU39946
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-2017-5350
CWE-ID: CWE-20
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 perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Samsung Note devices with L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.0) software allow attackers to crash systemUI by leveraging incomplete exception handling. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7122.


How to mitigate CVE-2017-5350

Install update from vendor's website.

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