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CVE-2018-5906

• 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: 2018-11-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, there is a possible buffer overflow in debugfs module due to lack of check in size of input before copying into buffer.

Affected products

• Android: all versions

References

• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=ac40b7c7591476a8863b477ddc1c14c631f77256
• https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/08/06/august-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=ac40b7c7591476a8863b477ddc1c14c631f77256
• https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/08/06/august-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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