Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Samsung Mobile Devices with Exynos Chipsets

Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Samsung Mobile Devices with Exynos Chipsets

CVE-2020-12746 · 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 O(8.X), P(9.0), and Q(10.0) (Exynos chipsets) software. Attackers can bypass the Secure Bootloader protection mechanism via a heap-based buffer overflow to execute arbitrary code. The Samsung ID is SVE-2020-16712 (May 2020).

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