Samsung Notes up to 4.4.15 Object Header Parser out-of-bounds

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Samsung Notes. This affects an unknown part of the component Object Header Parser. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-34633. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Samsung Notes. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Object Header Parser. 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. CVE summarizes:

Out-of-bounds read in parsing object header in Samsung Notes prior to version 4.4.21.62 allows local attacker to access unauthorized memory.

The advisory is shared for download at security.samsungmobile.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-34633 since 05/07/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit 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

Website

• Vendor: https://www.samsung.com/

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