CVE-2018-5908

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 display function due to lack of buffer length validation before copying.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=28e5918c60b832091c6b3618747258803cbd3302
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=4689d03e5db548d263232c274bf307956207da27
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/11/05/november-2018-code-aurora-forum-security-bulletin
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=28e5918c60b832091c6b3618747258803cbd3302
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=4689d03e5db548d263232c274bf307956207da27
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/11/05/november-2018-code-aurora-forum-security-bulletin

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