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CVE-2019-20556

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with P(9.0) (SM6150, SM8150, SM8150_FUSION, exynos7885, exynos9610, and exynos9820 chipsets) software. RKP memory corruption allows attackers to control the effective address in EL2. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-15221 (October 2019).

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

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