CVE-2017-9694

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: 2018-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

While parsing Netlink attributes in QCA_WLAN_VENDOR_ATTR_EXTSCAN_BSSID_HOTLIST_PARAMS_LOST_AP_SAMPLE_SIZE in qcacld 2.0 before 2017-05-16, a buffer overread could occur.

Affected products

Qcacld 2.0 Project Qcacld 2.0: before 4.5.40.004 — fixed in 4.5.40.004

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Qcacld 2.0 Project Qcacld 2.0 4.5.40.004. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100210
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=1e47d44de7bab5500d27f17ae5c4ebebc7d2b4ef
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=1e47d44de7bab5500d27f17ae5c4ebebc7d2b4ef
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2017/10/20/october-2017-v1

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