Automatic Memory Release Vulnerability in CAF Android Releases

CVE-2018-11270 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, memory allocated with devm_kzalloc is automatically released by the kernel if the probe function fails with an error code. This may result in data corruption.

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