Out‑of‑Bounds Write in SMS Packet Processing on Samsung Exynos Chips

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. An out-of-bounds write occurs due to a mismatch between the TP-UDHI and UDL values when processing an SMS TP-UD packet.

Memory Initialization Failure Causes Crash in Samsung Exynos Processors via RRCReconfiguration Message

An issue was discovered in RRC in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. Improper memory initialization results in an illegal memory access, causing a system crash via a malformed RRCReconfiguration message.

Baseband Crash from Excessive LTE MAC Control Elements in Samsung Exynos Processors

An issue was discovered in L2 in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. Incorrect handling of LTE MAC packets containing many MAC Control Elements (CEs) leads to baseband crashes.

Denial of Service via Improper SIM Card Proactive Command Handling in Samsung Exynos Processors

An issue was discovered in USIM in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. Improper handling of SIM card proactive commands leads to a Denial of Service.

An issue was discovered in SMS in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. A Stack-based Buffer Overflow occurs while parsing SMS RP-DATA messages.

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem (Exynos 980, 850, 990, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 1680, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, Modem 5400, and Modem 5410). The absence of proper input validation leads to a Denial of Service.

An issue was discovered in NAS in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 1580, 2500, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. Incorrect Handling of a DL NAS Transport packet leads to a Denial of Service.

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, Modem 5400. The absence of a NULL check leads to a Denial of Service when an attacker sends malformed MM packets to the target.

An issue was discovered in L2 in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 9110, W920, W930, Modem 5123, and Modem 5300. Incorrect handling of RLC AM PDUs leads to a Denial of Service.

An issue was discovered in L2 in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 9110, W920, W930, Modem 5123, and Modem 5300. Incorrect handling of RLC AM PDUs leads to a Denial of Service.

An issue was discovered in NRMM in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. Lack of boundary check during the decoding of Registration Accept messages can lead to out-of-bounds writes on the stack

An issue was discovered in NRMM in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. Lack of a boundary check during the decoding of DL NAS Transport messages leads to a Denial of Service.

An issue was discovered in RRC in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, W1000, Modem 5300, and Modem 5400. Incorrect handling of undefined values leads to a Denial of Service.

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor and Wearable Processor Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, Modem 5400. The lack of a length check leads to out-of-bounds access via malformed RRC packets to the target.

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, Modem 5400. The lack of a length check leads to out-of-bounds reads via malformed NAS packets.

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor, Wearable Processor, and Modem Exynos 980, 990, 850, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 9110, W920, W930, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, Modem 5400. A Heap-based Out-of-Bounds Write exists in the GPRS protocol implementation because of a mismatch between the actual length of the payload and the length declared within the payload.

An issue was discovered in Samsung Mobile Processor and Modem Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 1080, 2100, 1280, 2200, 1330, 1380, 1480, 2400, 9110, W1000, Modem 5123, Modem 5300, Modem 5400. UE does not limit the number of attempts for the RRC Setup procedure in the 5G SA, leading to a denial of service (battery-drain attack).