Arbitrary Free and Use After Free Vulnerability in Qualcomm Android Devices

Arbitrary Free and Use After Free Vulnerability in Qualcomm Android Devices

CVE-2017-7364 · HIGH Severity

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

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, in function __mdss_fb_copy_destscaler_data(), variable ds_data[i].scale may still point to a user-provided address (which could point to arbitrary kernel address), so on an error condition, this user-provided address will be freed (arbitrary free), and continued operation could result in use after free condition.

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