CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-18665

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 07, 2020 | Modified: Apr 08, 2020
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with M(6.0) software. There is a NULL pointer exception in WifiService via adb-cmd, causing memory corruption. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-8287 (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 (including) 6.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References