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CVE-2017-18692

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.1)—

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with M(6.0) and N(7.0) (MSM8939, MSM8996, MSM8998, Exynos7580, Exynos8890, or Exynos8895 chipsets) software. There is a race condition, with a resultant buffer overflow, in the sec_ts touchscreen sysfs interface. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7501 (January 2017).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

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