CVE-2018-11851

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, lack of check on input received to calculate the buffer length can lead to out of bound write to kernel stack.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107770
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=0f6839316f43d48833750667b979aec11558abc0
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107770
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=0f6839316f43d48833750667b979aec11558abc0
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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