CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-25394

Use After Free

Published: Jun 11, 2021 | Modified: Oct 30, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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A use after free vulnerability via race condition in MFC charger driver prior to SMR MAY-2021 Release 1 allows arbitrary write given a radio privilege is compromised.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
AndroidSamsung8.1 (including)8.1 (including)
AndroidSamsung9.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)9.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung9.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)9.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung9.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)9.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung9.0-smr-mar-2021-r1 (including)9.0-smr-mar-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung10.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)10.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung10.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)10.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung10.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)10.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung11.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)11.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung11.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)11.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung11.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)11.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)
AndroidSamsung11.0-smr-jul-2021-r1 (including)11.0-smr-jul-2021-r1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References