Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 7, 2020· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2017-18649
CVE-2017-18649
Description
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with N(7.x) software. An attacker can boot a device with root privileges because the bootloader for the Qualcomm MSM8998 chipset lacks an integrity check of the system image, aka the "SamFAIL" issue. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10465 (November 2017).
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Affected products
2- Samsung/mobile devicesdescription
- Range: N(7.x) software
Patches
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References
2- androidcommunity.com/samfail-method-gives-root-access-to-samsung-galaxy-note-8-snapdragon-variant-20171009/mitrex_refsource_MISC
- security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsbmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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