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CVE-2017-8246

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CVE-2017-8246

Published: May 12, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

In function msm_pcm_playback_close() in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, prtd is assigned substream->runtime->private_data. Later, prtd is freed. However, prtd is not sanitized and set to NULL, resulting in a dangling pointer. There are other functions that access the same memory (substream->runtime->private_data) with a NULL check, such as msm_pcm_volume_ctl_put(), which means this freed memory could be used.

VendorProductVersions

Qualcomm, Inc.

Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

affected
All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel

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