Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, and CAF Android Releases

Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, and CAF Android Releases

CVE-2017-11015 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, currently, the value of SIR_MAC_AUTH_CHALLENGE_LENGTH is set to 128 which may result in buffer overflow since the frame parser allows challenge text of length up to 253 bytes, but the driver can not handle challenge text larger than 128 bytes.

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