CVE-2017-11079

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, while processing sparse image, uninitialized heap memory can potentially be flashed due to the lack of validation of sparse image block header size.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-01-01
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-01-01

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