CVE-2018-21079: 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.x), M(6.0), N(7.x), and O(8.0) software. There is a kernel pointer leak in the USB gadget driver. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10993 (March 2018).

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 5.1.1 only; …

Published 2020-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.