CVE-2022-40762 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value vulnerablity in the TEE_Realloc function in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 allows a trusted application to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by invoking the function TEE_Realloc with an excessive number for the parameter len.

Published: 2022-09-16

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:samsung:mtower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-44029	A Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value vulnerablity in the TEE_Realloc function in Samsung mTower through 0.3.0 allows a trusted application to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by invoking the function TEE_Realloc with an excessive number for the parameter len.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0087.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/efd36709306a9afcca5b4782499d01be0c7a02a5/tee/lib/libutee/tee_api.c#L319
https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/issues/82

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00103}`	epss `{'score': 0.0011}`

Subscriptions

Samsung Mtower

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-16T21:35:45.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T12:28:42.627Z

Reserved: 2022-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-40762

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-16T22:15:12.557

Modified: 2026-06-17T05:02:00.310

Link: CVE-2022-40762

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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