CVE-2017-17766

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% 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-190

Description

In wma_peer_info_event_handler() in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android before 2017-10-03, the value of num_peers received from firmware is not properly validated so that an integer overflow vulnerability in the size of a buffer allocation may potentially lead to a buffer overflow.

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-3.0/commit/?id=a37d8a78f5bd0e9a2c91de46721a6d80bd229a43
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-02-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=a37d8a78f5bd0e9a2c91de46721a6d80bd229a43

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