CVE-2018-21079 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity

75%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

60%

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.0), N(7.x), and O(8.0) software. There is a kernel pointer leak in the USB gadget driver. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10993 (March 2018).

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.0), N(7.x), and O(8.0) software. There is a kernel pointer leak in the USB gadget driver. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10993 (March 2018).

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Demo Examples

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CWE-401

The following C function leaks a block of allocated memory if the call to read() does not return the expected number of bytes:


               
}
return buf;
return NULL;
return NULL;

Overview

Type

Google Android

First reported 4 years ago

2020-04-08 18:15:00

Last updated 4 years ago

2020-04-09 15:26:00

Affected Software

Google Android Operating System 5.0

5.0

Google Android 5.0.1

5.0.1

Google Android 5.0.2

5.0.2

Google Android 5.1

5.1

Google Android 5.1.0

5.1.0

Google Android 5.1.1

5.1.1

Google Android 6.0

6.0

Google Android (Nougat) 7.0

7.0

Google Android 7.1.0

7.1.0

Google Android 7.1.1

7.1.1

Google Android 7.1.2

7.1.2

Google Android 8.0

8.0

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