CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18664

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 07, 2020 | Modified: Apr 08, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with KK(4.4), L(5.0/5.1), and M(6.0) software. There is a NULL pointer exception in PersonManager, causing memory corruption. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-8286 (June 2017).

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
Android Google 6.0 6.0
Android Google 5.0 5.0
Android Google 4.4 4.4
Android Google 5.1 5.1

Potential Mitigations

References