CVE-2016-9966

published 2016-12-16

CVE-2016-9966: 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…

Priority P3 38 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

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

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.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
samsung	samsung_mobile	—	—
samsung	samsung_mobile	—	—
samsung	samsung_mobile	—	—
samsung	samsung_mobile	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 10.0 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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