Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in SET_PASSPOINT_LIST Command in Android Releases

CVE-2018-11298 · 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, while processing SET_PASSPOINT_LIST vendor command HDD does not make sure that the realm string that gets passed by upper-layer is NULL terminated. This may lead to buffer overflow as strlen is used to get realm string length to construct the PASSPOINT WMA command.

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