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CVE-2017-9724

• 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: 2017-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, user-level permissions can be used to gain access to kernel memory, specifically the ION cache maintenance code is writing to a user supplied address.

Affected products

• Android: through 8.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100658
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100658
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01

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