CVE-2016-9967 describes a critical vulnerability in the Telecom application of Samsung Note devices running Android L, M, and N. This flaw, stemming from inadequate exception handling, allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely crash the system, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, and potentially enabling privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, posing a significant risk of high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:samsung_mobile:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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