Vulnerability: Missing Race Condition Protection and Buffer Over-read in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

CVE-2017-8279 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, missing race condition protection while updating msg mask table can lead to buffer over-read. Also access to freed memory can happen while updating msg_mask information.

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