CVE-2018-5835

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-119

Description

If the seq_len is greater then CSR_MAX_RSC_LEN, a buffer overflow in __wlan_hdd_cfg80211_add_key() may occur when copying keyRSC 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.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=5a0eeb72c3cde7dcb8096967561a88a678ad9aec
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/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=5a0eeb72c3cde7dcb8096967561a88a678ad9aec
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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