Arbitrary Memory Access Vulnerability in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

CVE-2017-9698 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, improperly specified offset/size values for a submission command could cause a math operation to overflow and could result in an access to arbitrary memory. The combined pointer will overflow and possibly pass further checks intended to avoid accessing unintended memory.

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