Integer overflow in Google Android - CVE-2017-17765
Published: February 24, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37497
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-17765
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Android
Google Android
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, multiple values received from firmware are not properly validated in wma_get_ll_stats_ext_buf() and are used to allocate the sizes of buffers and may be vulnerable to integer overflow leading to buffer overflow.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-17765
Install update from vendor's website.