Race Conditions and Memory Leak Vulnerability in Qualcomm Android Devices

CVE-2017-8280 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during the wlan calibration data store and retrieve operation, there are some potential race conditions which lead to a memory leak and a buffer overflow during the context switch.

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