CVE-2017-5538

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The kbase_dispatch function in arm/t7xx/r5p0/mali_kbase_core_linux.c in the GPU driver on Samsung devices with M(6.0) and N(7.0) software and Exynos AP chipsets allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, which trigger an out-of-bounds read, aka SVE-2016-6362.

Affected products

Samsung Mobile: 6.0, 7.0

References

http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-JAN-2017
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/19/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95674
http://security.samsungmobile.com/smrupdate.html#SMR-JAN-2017
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/19/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/20/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95674

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