Kernel Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Camera Application for Android

CVE-2017-11029 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, camera application triggers "user-memory-access" issue as the Camera CPP module Linux driver directly accesses the application provided buffer, which resides in user space. An unchecked userspace value (ioctl_ptr->len) is used to copy contents to a kernel buffer which can lead to kernel buffer overflow.

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