CVE-2016-9966

Critical

Description

Lack of appropriate exception handling in some receivers of the Telecom application on Samsung Note devices with L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.0) software allows attackers to crash the system easily resulting in a possible DoS attack, or possibly gain privileges. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7120.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductSamsung Mobile
PublishedDec 16, 2016
First seenDec 16, 2016

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
samsung samsung_mobile5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0—

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