CVE-2018-14853

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A NULL pointer dereference in dhd_prot_txdata_write_flush in drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd4358/dhd_msgbuf.c in the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F G920FXXU5EQH7 allows an attacker (who has obtained code execution on the Wi-Fi chip) to cause the device to reboot. The Samsung ID is SVE-2018-11783.

Affected products

Samsung Galaxy S6 Firmware: g920fxxu5eqh7

References

https://github.com/securesystemslab/periscope/blob/master/bugs-found/CVE-2018-14853.md
https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~stijn.volckaert/papers/2019_NDSS_PeriScope.pdf
https://github.com/securesystemslab/periscope/blob/master/bugs-found/CVE-2018-14853.md

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