CVE-2018-5872

Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% 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

While parsing over-the-air information elements in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05, the use of an out-of-range pointer offset can occur.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-07-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qca-wifi-host-cmn/commit/?id=7d65c1b32df795d4e95cdf2cfb624126f5125220
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-07-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qca-wifi-host-cmn/commit/?id=7d65c1b32df795d4e95cdf2cfb624126f5125220
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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