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.
Published: 2016-12-16
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-10750 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:07:31.821Z

Reserved: 2016-12-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9966

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Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-16T09:59:00.420

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-9966

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