Resource exhaustion in Samsung Mobile - CVE-2017-5351
Published: January 12, 2017 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU39947
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-2017-5351
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Samsung Note devices with KK(4.4), L(5.0/5.1), and M(6.0) software allow attackers to crash the system by creating an arbitrarily large number of active VR service threads. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7650.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-5351
Install update from vendor's website.