Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Samsung Mobile Devices with Shannon333 Chipset

Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Samsung Mobile Devices with Shannon333 Chipset

CVE-2015-8546 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with software through 2015-11-12, affecting the Galaxy S6/S6 Edge, Galaxy S6 Edge+, and Galaxy Note5 with the Shannon333 chipset. There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the baseband process that is exploitable for remote code execution via a fake base station. The Samsung ID is SVE-2015-5123 (December 2015).

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