Slab Out of Bound Access Vulnerability in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

CVE-2017-14879 · 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, by calling an IPA ioctl and searching for routing/filer/hdr rule handle from ipa_idr pointer using ipa_idr_find() function, the wrong structure pointer can be returned resulting in a slab out of bound access in the IPA driver.

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