CVE-2017-14893

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

While flashing meta image, a buffer over-read may potentially occur when the image size is smaller than the image header size or is smaller than the image header size + total image header entry 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.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/abl/tianocore/edk2/commit/?id=c8dc3bf07ee909e6e57ad7887f9d3c0ffa5df795
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/abl/tianocore/edk2/commit/?id=c8dc3bf07ee909e6e57ad7887f9d3c0ffa5df795

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