PT-2018-17173 · Google+1 · Android+1

Published 2018-07-06 · Updated 2018-09-04 · CVE-2018-5834

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Android versions prior to security patch level 2018-06-05

Description: A buffer overwrite can potentially occur in the wlan hdd cfg80211 vendor scan() function. This issue affects Android releases from CAF using the linux kernel.

Recommendations: For Android versions prior to security patch level 2018-06-05, update to a version with a security patch level of 2018-06-05 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-5834

Affected Products

Android

Linux Kernel

References · 4

• https://codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5834 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=ede0f8a4d11ec56ee87177478cc0c25af0894860 · Patch
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components · Note