CVE-2017-18649

Published: Apr 7, 2020

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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).

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

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https://androidcommunity.com/samfail-method-gives-root-access-to-samsung-galaxy-note-8-snapdragon-variant-20171009/

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CVE-2017-18649

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