Race condition and heap-based buffer overflow in Samsung mobile devices with MAX86902 sensor driver

Race condition and heap-based buffer overflow in Samsung mobile devices with MAX86902 sensor driver

CVE-2016-11030 · HIGH Severity

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

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with KK(4.4), L(5.0/5.1), and M(6.0) (with Hrm sensor support) software. The sysfs of the MAX86902 sensor driver does not prevent concurrent access, leading to a race condition and resultant heap-based buffer overflow. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7341 (December 2016).

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