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Use After Free

CVE-2019-20600

High
7.1/10

Summary

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with O(8.0) and P(9.0) (Exynos8890 chipsets) software. A use-after-free occurs in the MALI GPU driver. The Samsung ID is SVE-2019-13921-1 (May 2019).

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published