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CVE-2016-6526

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The SpamCall Activity component in Telecom application on Samsung Note device L(5.0/5.1) and M(6.0) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) or possibly gain privileges via a malformed serializable object.

Affected products

• Samsung Mobile: 5.0, 5.1, 6.0

References

• http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/05/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92330
• http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-AUG-2016
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/05/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92330

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