PT-2018-10845 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Published 2018-09-18 · Updated 2019-04-05 · CVE-2018-11840

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A issue exists in the WLAN driver command ioctl processing, where a temporary buffer used to construct the reply message may be freed twice. This is present in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Double Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-415

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-11840

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-11840 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=a3d53bb977b907a5d11d22cad3f8ebf3f1d2b1ed · Patch
• https://codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/107770 · Note