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CVE-2017-8259

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2017-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

In the service locator in all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow can occur as the variable set for determining the size of the buffer is not used to indicate the size of the buffer.

Affected products

• Android: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99465
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99465
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01

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