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

CVE-2019-20584

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 HDCP Trustlet, leading to arbitrary code execution. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-14850 (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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  • Published