CVE-2017-18688: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.0) software. There is an information disclosure (of memory locations outside a buffer) via /dev/dsm_ctrl_dev. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7340 (January 2017).

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2020-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.