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CVE-2018-11278

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 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: 2018-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, Venus HW searches for start code when decoding input bit stream buffers. If start code is not found in entire buffer, there is over-fetch beyond allocation length. This leads to page fault.

Affected products

• Android: all versions

References

• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/hardware/qcom/media/commit/?id=6c7dbdb2f067bf844beef2c41d9d67cacc3adfa6
• https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/hardware/qcom/media/commit/?id=6c7dbdb2f067bf844beef2c41d9d67cacc3adfa6
• https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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