Vulnerability CVE-2022-39829
Published: 2022-09-05

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.

 References:
https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/blob/18f4b592a8a973ce5972f4e2658ea0f6e3686284/tools/ecdsa_keygen.c#L135
https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man3/EVP_CIPHER_CTX_new.html
https://github.com/Samsung/mTower/issues/75
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