CVE-2017-8279 (GCVE-0-2017-8279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-16 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:12
VLAI
Summary
In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, missing race condition protection while updating msg mask table can lead to buffer over-read. Also access to freed memory can happen while updating msg_mask information.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Core
Assigner
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Qualcomm, Inc. Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android Affected: All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel
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Date Public
2017-11-01 00:00
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