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CVE-2018-5891

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 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

While processing modem SSR after IMS is registered, the IMS data daemon is restarted but the ipc_dataHandle is no longer available. Consequently, the DPL thread frees the internal memory for dataDHandle but the local variable pointer is not updated which can lead to a Use After Free condition in Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear.

Affected products

• Qualcomm Msm8909W Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Msm8996Au Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 205 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 212 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 415 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 450 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 615 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 616 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 625 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 650 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 652 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 820 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 835 Firmware: all versions
• Qualcomm Sd 845 Firmware: all versions

References

• https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins
• https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins

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