FKIE_CVE-2015-9179

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-04-18 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:35
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile MSM8974, lack of length checking in OEMCrypto_DeriveKeysFromSessionKey() could lead to a buffer overflow vulnerability.
References
product-security@qualcomm.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103671Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
product-security@qualcomm.comhttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103671Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qualcomm msm8974_firmware -
qualcomm msm8974 -
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