Samsung Notes up to 4.4.15 Textbox out-of-bounds

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A vulnerability was found in Samsung Notes. It has been rated as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component Textbox Handler. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-34630. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Samsung Notes. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Textbox Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Out-of-bounds read in applying own binary with textbox in Samsung Notes prior to version 4.4.21.62 allows local attackers to potentially read memory.

The advisory is shared at security.samsungmobile.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-34630 since 05/07/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 4.4.21.62 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Samsung

Name

• Notes

Version

• 2.0.02.31
• 4.2.00.22
• 4.2.04.27
• 4.3.14.39
• 4.4.15

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.samsung.com/

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