Out-of-Bound Read Vulnerability in Android Releases from CAF

CVE-2018-5896 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Android releases from CAF using the linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-06-05, kernel panic may happen due to out-of-bound read, caused by not checking source buffer length against length of packet stream to be copied.

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