CVE-2018-5853

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% 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-362

Description

A race condition exists in a driver in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-05-05 potentially leading to a use-after-free condition.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-05-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=f64e9815f0488a7b37e4e1395a1457d1dfefda66
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-05-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=f64e9815f0488a7b37e4e1395a1457d1dfefda66
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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