Race Condition Vulnerability in WLAN Firmware Loading Routine

CVE-2017-11082 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/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, due to a race condition in a firmware loading routine, a buffer overflow could potentially occur if multiple user space threads try to update the WLAN firmware file through sysfs.

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