What is CVE-2017-5351?

CVE-2017-5351 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Samsung_mobile, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-01-12.

How severe is CVE-2017-5351?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Samsung Samsung_mobile

CVE-2017-5351

Samsung Note devices with KK(4.4), L(5.0/5.1), and M(6.0) software allow attackers to crash the system by creating an arbitrarily large number of active VR service threads. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7650.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.005 (65.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Samsung Samsung_mobile — versions 4.4, 5.0, 5.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
95418 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-5351?: CVE-2017-5351 is a high-severity vulnerability in Samsung Samsung_mobile, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-01-12.
How severe is CVE-2017-5351?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.