CVE-2016-9966

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2016-12-16

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-388

Affected products

• Samsung Mobile (Samsung)

References

• http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-DEC-2016
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94955