PT-2020-8549 · Samsung · Tizen+1

Published 2020-01-22 · Updated 2020-02-03 · CVE-2018-16268

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:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Tizen versions prior to 5.0 M1 Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2

Description: The issue is related to improper D-Bus security policy configurations in the SoundServer/FocusServer system services, allowing an unprivileged process to perform certain media-related system actions. This includes playing arbitrary sound files or DTMF tones.

Recommendations: For Tizen versions prior to 5.0 M1, update to version 5.0 M1 or later to resolve the issue. For Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2, update to build RE2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-16268

Affected Products

Samsung Galaxy Gear

Tizen

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16268 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16268 · Vendor Advisory
• https://review.tizen.org/git/?p=platform/core/multimedia/libmm-sound.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7fce6f2d6d480b3bd0e84a5ba3f72173a37e36db · Note
• https://youtube.com/watch?v=3IdgBwbOT-g&feature=youtu.be · Note
• https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20presentations/Dongsung%20Kim%20and%20Hyoung%20Kee%20Choi%20-%20Updated/DEFCON-26-Dongsung-Kim-and-Hyoung-Kee-Choi-Your-Watch-Can-Watch-You-Updated.pdf · Note