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CVE-2017-11089 (GCVE-0-2017-11089)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-16 22:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 21:03
VLAI
Summary
In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overread is observed in nl80211_set_station when user space application sends attribute NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE with data of size less than 4 bytes
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Buffer Over-read in WLAN
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixe… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Qualcomm, Inc. Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android Affected: All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel
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Date Public
2017-11-01 00:00
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