CVE-2018-16268 Information

Description

The SoundServer/FocusServer system services in Tizen allow an unprivileged process to perform media-related system actions due to improper D-Bus security policy configurations. Such actions include playing an arbitrary sound file or DTMF tones. This affects Tizen before 5.0 M1 and Tizen-based firmwares including Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://media.defcon.org/DEF20CON2026/DEF20CON202620presentations/Dongsung20Kim20and20Hyoung20Kee20Choi20-20Updated/DEFCON-26-Dongsung-Kim-and-Hyoung-Kee-Choi-Your-Watch-Can-Watch-You-Updated.pdf https://review.tizen.org/git/?p=platform/core/multimedia/libmm-sound.git;a=commit;h=7fce6f2d6d480b3bd0e84a5ba3f72173a37e36db https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IdgBwbOT-g&feature=youtu.be

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

4.3