CVE-2018-21087: Google Android

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. 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.x), and N(7.x) software. There is a vnswap heap-based buffer overflow via the store function, with resultant privilege escalation. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-10599 (January 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.