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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2017-18643

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with M(6.x) and N(7.x) software. There is information disclosure of the kbase_context address of a GPU memory node. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-8907 (December 2017).

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published