CVE-2017-10996

published 2017-09-21

CVE-2017-10996: In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, out of bounds access is possible in c_show(), due to compat_hwcap_str[] not…

Priority P4 24 medium 5.5 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C H I N A N

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, out of bounds access is possible in c_show(), due to compat_hwcap_str[] not being NULL-terminated. This error is not fatal, however the device might crash/reboot with memory violation/out of bounds access.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
google	android	<= 8.0	—
google	android	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 5.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 7.1 HIGH AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

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