CVE-2017-18692: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with M(6.0) and N(7.0) (MSM8939, MSM8996, MSM8998, Exynos7580, Exynos8890, or Exynos8895 chipsets) software. There is a race condition, with a resultant buffer overflow, in the sec_ts touchscreen sysfs interface. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7501 (January 2017).

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

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