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CVE-2016-9965

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

Lack of appropriate exception handling in some receivers of the Telecom application on Samsung Note devices with L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.0) software allows attackers to crash the system easily resulting in a possible DoS attack, or possibly gain privileges. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7119.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Samsung — Samsung Mobile

CWEs

References

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