Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Android WLAN Driver due to Type Mismatch for ie_len

CVE-2018-3578 · HIGH Severity

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

Type mismatch for ie_len can cause the WLAN driver to allocate less memory on the heap due to implicit casting leading to a heap buffer overflow in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

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