CVE-2017-15859

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

While processing the QCA_NL80211_VENDOR_SUBCMD_SET_TXPOWER_SCALE_DECR_DB vendor command, in which attribute QCA_WLAN_VENDOR_ATTR_TXPOWER_SCALE_DECR_DB contains fewer than 1 byte, in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android before 2017-08-11 a buffer overrun occurs.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-02-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=88dcc44ea8fbe158d1dee3ea197e47794bf4449d
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-02-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=88dcc44ea8fbe158d1dee3ea197e47794bf4449d

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