CVE-2017-9693

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% 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-119

Description

The length of attribute value for STA_EXT_CAPABILITY in __wlan_hdd_change_station in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android before 2017-06-06 being less than the actual lenth of StaParams.extn_capability results in a read for extra bytes when a memcpy is done from params->ext_capab to StaParams.extn_capability using the sizeof(StaParams.extn_capability).

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100210
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=05a5abb21e4d97001f77d344444a3ec2f9c275f9
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2017/10/20/october-2017-v1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100210
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=05a5abb21e4d97001f77d344444a3ec2f9c275f9
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2017/10/20/october-2017-v1

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