CVE-2016-9966

moderate-risk

Published 2016-12-16

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.

Do I need to act?

0.49% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 9.8/10 Critical

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (4)

Samsung Mobile

Affected Vendors

Samsung

References (4)

Vendor Advisory http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-DEC-2016

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94955

Vendor Advisory http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-DEC-2016

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94955

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moderate-risk

Severity 32/34 · Critical

Exploitability 2/34 · Minimal

Exposure 10/34 · Low