CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-39829
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-09-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
There is a NULL pointer dereference in aes256_encrypt in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 due to a missing check on the return value of EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new.
Affected configurations
• samsung mtower (<= 0.3.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/18f4b592a8a973ce5972f4e2658ea0f6e3686284/tools/ecdsa_keygen.c#L135 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/issues/75 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man3/EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/18f4b592a8a973ce5972f4e2658ea0f6e3686284/tools/ecdsa_keygen.c#L135 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/issues/75 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man3/EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new.html Third Party Advisory