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Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CVE-2018-21064

High
9.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) and O(8.x) software. There is an array overflow in a driver's input booster. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-11816 (August 2018).

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

CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

The program copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow.

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