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FKIE_CVE-2017-15824

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-07-06 17:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:08

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

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, the function UpdateDeviceStatus() writes a local stack buffer without initialization to flash memory using WriteToPartition() which may potentially leak memory.

References

	URL	Tags
	product-security@qualcomm.com	https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components	Patch, Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components	Patch, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	google	android	-

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:08:19.970",
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CVE-2017-15824 (GCVE-0-2017-15824)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-06 17:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:11

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Information Exposure Vulnerability in Boot

Assigner

qualcomm mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixe…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Qualcomm, Inc.	Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android	Affected: All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel

Date Public

2018-06-05 00:00

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