Vulnerability: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in Qualcomm Android Products

Vulnerability: Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in Qualcomm Android Products

CVE-2017-8250 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, user controlled variables "nr_cmds" and "nr_bos" number are passed across functions without any check. An integer overflow to buffer overflow (with a smaller buffer allocated) may occur when they are too large or negative.

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