Buffer Over-read Vulnerability in Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android

CVE-2017-15853 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel before security patch level 2018-04-05, while processing PTT commands, ptt_sock_send_msg_to_app() is invoked without validating the packet length. If the packet length is invalid, then a buffer over-read can occur.

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