CVE-2017-18672

MEDIUM

Android L/M/N - Denial of Service via Intent Exception Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.x) software. Because of incorrect exception handling for Intents, a local attacker can force a reboot within framework.jar. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-8390 (May 2017).

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-755
Status published
Products (7)
google/android 5.0
google/android 5.1
google/android 6.0
google/android 7.0
google/android 7.1.0
google/android 7.1.1
google/android 7.1.2
Published Apr 07, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026