CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-25394

Use After Free

Published: Jun 11, 2021 | Modified: Feb 14, 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

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Android Samsung 8.1 (including) 8.1 (including)
Android Samsung 9.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including) 9.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 9.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including) 9.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 9.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including) 9.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 9.0-smr-mar-2021-r1 (including) 9.0-smr-mar-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 10.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including) 10.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 10.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including) 10.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 10.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including) 10.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 11.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including) 11.0-smr-apr-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 11.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including) 11.0-smr-feb-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 11.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including) 11.0-smr-jan-2021-r1 (including)
Android Samsung 11.0-smr-jul-2021-r1 (including) 11.0-smr-jul-2021-r1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References