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CVE-2018-11276

Published: Sep 18, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

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Description

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, double free of memory allocation is possible in Kernel when it explicitly tries to free that memory on driver probe failure, since memory allocated is automatically freed on probe.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Qualcomm, Inc.	Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android	affected `All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel`

References

https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin

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https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components

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https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=83a44ca6057bf9c1e36515cded28edc32a4a1501

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