Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE-2017-18643
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