In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, due to a race condition in a firmware loading routine, a buffer overflow could potentially occur if multiple user space threads try to update the WLAN firmware file through sysfs.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-03-01 | vendor advisory |
| https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=2d4f8cd8d11f8fb1491a20d7e316cc0fd03eeb59 | third party advisory patch |