Use After Free vulnerability in Android Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845

CVE-2017-18144 · HIGH Severity

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

In Android before security patch level 2018-04-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, while processing the retransmission of WPA supplicant command send failures, there is a make after break of the connection to WPA supplicant where the local pointer is not properly updated. If the WPA supplicant command transmission fails, a Use After Free condition will occur.

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