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CVE-2021-38591 (GCVE-0-2021-38591)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-11 23:12 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:44
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS P and Q software for mt6762/mt6765/mt6883. Attackers can change some of the NvRAM content by leveraging the misconfiguration of a debug command. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-210005 (August 2021).
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
https://lgsecurity.lge.com/ x_refsource_MISC
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