PT-2017-3604 · Samsung · Samsung Mobile+1

Published 2017-09-22 · Updated 2018-02-01 · CVE-2017-18020

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.4

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Samsung Mobile devices with L(5.x) software Samsung Mobile devices with M(6.x) software Samsung Mobile devices with N(7.x) software

Description: The issue exists due to insufficient input validation in the S Boot loader of the Samsung Mobile operating system. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code by exploiting the omission of a size check during the copy of ramfs data to memory.

Recommendations: For Samsung Mobile devices with L(5.x) software, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. For Samsung Mobile devices with M(6.x) software, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. For Samsung Mobile devices with N(7.x) software, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2018-00573

CVE-2017-18020

Affected Products

Bootloader

Samsung Mobile

References · 4

• https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00573 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18020 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-18020 · Vendor Advisory