CVE-2012-2980: Att Status

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Samsung and HTC onTouchEvent method implementation for Android on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide, HTC Merge, Sprint EVO Shift 4G, HTC ChaCha, AT&T Status, HTC Desire Z, T-Mobile G2, T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide, and Samsung Galaxy S stores touch coordinates in the dmesg buffer, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, as demonstrated by PIN numbers, telephone numbers, and text messages.

Affected products

• Att Status: affected versions not specified
• Htc Chacha: affected versions not specified
• Htc Desire: affected versions not specified
• Htc Merge: affected versions not specified
• Samsung Galaxy S: affected versions not specified
• Sprint Evo Shift 4g: affected versions not specified
• T-Mobile g2: affected versions not specified
• T-Mobile Mytouch 3g Slide: affected versions not specified
• T-Mobile Mytouch 4g Slide: affected versions not specified

Published 2012-08-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.