CVE-2017-8247

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2017-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-400

Description

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, if there is more than one thread doing the device open operation, the device may be opened more than once. This would lead to get_pid being called more than once, however put_pid being called only once in function "msm_close".

Affected products

Android: through 8.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100658
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100658
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01

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