CVE-2016-6526 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The SpamCall Activity component in Telecom application on Samsung Note device L(5.0/5.1) and M(6.0) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) or possibly gain privileges via a malformed serializable object.

Published: 2017-01-18

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:5.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:5.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:6.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-7447	The SpamCall Activity component in Telecom application on Samsung Note device L(5.0/5.1) and M(6.0) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) or possibly gain privileges via a malformed serializable object.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0013.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/05/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92330

History

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Subscriptions

Samsung Samsung Mobile

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-18T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:29:20.324Z

Reserved: 2016-08-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-6526

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-18T17:59:00.387

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2016-6526

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-264

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