CVE-2018-11893

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: 2018-09-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, while processing vendor scan request, when input argument - length of request IEs is greater than maximum can lead to a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=9564f777e20bab7dc29dbbb22d353cd1348b1ec2
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=9564f777e20bab7dc29dbbb22d353cd1348b1ec2
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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