VAR-201701-0191

Vulnerability from variot - Updated: 2025-04-20 23:13

The SpamCall Activity component in Telecom application on Samsung Note device L(5.0/5.1) and M(6.0) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) or possibly gain privileges via a malformed serializable object. Samsung MobilePhone is a smartphone released by Samsung in South Korea. Samsung MobilePhone has a security vulnerability that allows a local attacker to exploit this vulnerability to increase privileges. Samsung Android Phone is prone to multiple privilege-escalation vulnerabilities. Attackers can exploit these issues gain elevated privileges. Samsung Mobile Phones running Android versions L 5.0, L 5.1 and M 6.0 are vulnerable. Description of the potential vulnerability: Severity: Medium Affected versions: L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0) Reported on: May 11, 2016 Disclosure status: Privately disclosed.

Fix: http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016 SVE-2016-6242: Possible Privilege Escalation in telecom

Description of the potential vulnerability: Severity: Medium Affected versions: L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0) Reported on: May 11, 2016 Disclosure status: Privately disclosed.

Fix: http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016 SVE-2016-6244: Possible Privilege Escalation in telecom

Sincerely, Zhaozhanpeng(0xr0ot)

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