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CVE-2015-8546

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with software through 2015-11-12, affecting the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge, Galaxy S6 Edge+, and Galaxy Note5 with the Shannon333 chipset. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the baseband process that is exploitable for remote code execution via a fake base station. The Samsung ID is SVE-2015-5123 (December 2015).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

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