CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7160

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 03, 2016 | Modified: Nov 28, 2016
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability on Samsung Mobile M(6.0) devices exists because external access to SystemUI activities is not properly restricted, leading to a SystemUI crash and device restart, aka SVE-2016-6248.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Samsung_mobile Samsung 6.0 6.0

Potential Mitigations

References