CVE-2017-9681

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2018-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

In Android before 2017-08-05 on Qualcomm MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, and all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, if kernel memory address is passed from userspace through iris_vidioc_s_ext_ctrls ioctl, it will print kernel address data. A user could set it to an arbitrary kernel address, hence information disclosure (for kernel) could occur.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100210
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-08-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100210
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-08-01

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