CVE-2018-5831

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: 2018-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

In the KGSL driver in Android releases from CAF using the linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-06-05, a reference counting error can lead to a Use After Free condition.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=e3e13d745238ad8853af47c2d938344ea8d3c77f
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=e3e13d745238ad8853af47c2d938344ea8d3c77f
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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