cve-2017-18649
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-07 15:54
Modified
2024-08-05 21:28
Severity ?
Summary
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).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://androidcommunity.com/samfail-method-gives-root-access-to-samsung-galaxy-note-8-snapdragon-variant-20171009/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsbVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://androidcommunity.com/samfail-method-gives-root-access-to-samsung-galaxy-note-8-snapdragon-variant-20171009/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsbVendor Advisory
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