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In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Userspace can pass IEs to the host driver and if multiple append commands are received, then the integer variable that stores the length can overflow and the subsequent copy of the IE data may potentially lead to a heap buffer overflow

Published Dec 7, 2018

Description

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Userspace can pass IEs to the host driver and if multiple append commands are received, then the integer variable that stores the length can overflow and the subsequent copy of the IE data may potentially lead to a heap buffer overflow.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner qualcomm
Published Dec 7, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Sep 28, 2017
Link CVE-2017-14888
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2017-14888
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2017-14888