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Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVE-2019-20583

High
9.8/10

Summary

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.x) and P(9.0) (with TEEGRIS) software. There is type confusion in the EXT_FR Trustlet, leading to arbitrary code execution. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-14847 (August 2019).

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

CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

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