CVE-2017-9725

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% 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-682

Description

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.

Affected products

Android: through 8.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100658
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1130
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1170
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100658
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1130
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1170
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01

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