Memory Allocation Vulnerability in Android WLAN Association

CVE-2018-11842 · HIGH Severity

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

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, during wlan association, driver allocates memory. In case the mem allocation fails driver does a mem free though the memory was not allocated.

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