CVE-2018-11296

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: 2018-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, while processing a message from firmware in WLAN handler, a buffer overwrite can occur.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=0b0c18b45d1a39f9f33172d3c22f5b8031fe564e
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=0b0c18b45d1a39f9f33172d3c22f5b8031fe564e
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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