CVE-2018-5836

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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-125

Description

In wma_nan_rsp_event_handler() 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, the data_len value is received from firmware and not properly validated which could potentially lead to an out-of-bounds access.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=12a789c2e0e9fd2df40ac13ac27fe99487263887
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=12a789c2e0e9fd2df40ac13ac27fe99487263887
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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