CVE-2017-9705

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2018-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-415

Description

In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, concurrent rx notifications and read() operations in the G-Link PKT driver can result in a double free condition due to missing locking resulting in list_del() and list_add() overlapping and corrupting the next and previous pointers.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-01-01
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-01-01

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