CVE-2018-14853

A NULL pointer dereference in dhd_prot_txdata_write_flush in drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd4358/dhd_msgbuf.c in the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F G920FXXU5EQH7 allows an attacker (who has obtained code execution on the Wi-Fi chip) to cause the device to reboot. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-11783.

Score

CVSS 3.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-12-17

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected products

• Galaxy S6 Firmware (Samsung)

References

• https://github.com/securesystemslab/periscope/blob/master/bugs-found/CVE-2018-14853.md
• https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~stijn.volckaert/papers/2019_NDSS_PeriScope.pdf