CVE-2023-21451 Memory corruption in Samsung Mobile Devices

What is CVE-2023-21451?

CVE-2023-21451 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Samsung Android, published on 9 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Stack-based overflow vulnerability in IpcRxEmbmsSessionList in SECRIL prior to Android S(12) allows attacker to cause memory corruptions.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-21451?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Samsung Android.

How do I fix CVE-2023-21451?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-21451 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2023-21451 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-21451 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2021-25394 Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Exploited Medium 6.4
• CVE-2021-25395 Samsung Mobile Devices Race Condition Exploited Medium 6.4

All Samsung Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cvcg-8jjr-4f2m.