CVE-2022-40760: samsung mtower

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-40760 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in samsung mtower. EPSS estimates a 1.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 16-09-2022
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 03-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value vulnerablity in the TEE_MACUpdate function in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 allows a trusted application to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by invoking the function TEE_MACUpdate with an excessive size value of chunkSize.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.