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CVE-2018-21087

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.x), and N(7.x) software. There is a vnswap heap-based buffer overflow via the store function, with resultant privilege escalation. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10599 (January 2018).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

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