PT-2018-12764 · Samsung+1 · Samsung Galaxy S6+1

Published 2018-12-17 · Updated 2019-01-08 · CVE-2018-14853

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F version G920FXXU5EQH7

Description A NULL pointer dereference issue exists in the dhd prot txdata write flush function within the dhd msgbuf.c file of the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver. This issue can be exploited by an attacker who has obtained code execution on the Wi-Fi chip, allowing them to cause the device to reboot.

Recommendations For the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F version G920FXXU5EQH7, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-14853

Affected Products

Samsung Galaxy S6

Bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi Driver

References · 4

• 🔥 https://github.com/securesystemslab/periscope/blob/master/bugs-found/CVE-2018-14853.md · Exploit
• 🔥 https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~stijn.volckaert/papers/2019_NDSS_PeriScope.pdf · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-14853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14853 · Security Note