Use-after-free vulnerability in Qualcomm Android CAF with Linux kernel

CVE-2017-8277 · 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, in the function msm_dba_register_client, if the client registers failed, it would be freed. However the client was not removed from list. Use-after-free would occur when traversing the list next time.

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