An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with KK(4.4), L(5.0/5.1), and M(6.0) (with Hrm sensor support) software. The sysfs of the MAX86902 sensor driver does not prevent concurrent access, leading to a race condition and resultant heap-based buffer overflow. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7341 (December 2016).
The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.
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https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb | vendor advisory |