CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-2980
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
The Samsung and HTC onTouchEvent method implementation for Android on the T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide, HTC Merge, Sprint EVO Shift 4G, HTC ChaCha, AT&T Status, HTC Desire Z, T-Mobile G2, T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide, and Samsung Galaxy S stores touch coordinates in the dmesg buffer, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, as demonstrated by PIN numbers, telephone numbers, and text messages.
Affected configurations
• att status
• htc chacha
• htc desire
• htc merge
• samsung galaxy s
• sprint evo shift 4g
• t-mobile g2
• t-mobile mytouch 3g slide
• t-mobile mytouch 4g slide
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.htc.com/www/help/app-security-fix/ www.htc.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/251635 US Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8R5LD6 www.kb.cert.org
- http://www.htc.com/www/help/app-security-fix/ www.htc.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/251635 US Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8R5LD6 www.kb.cert.org