In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, in function __mdss_fb_copy_destscaler_data(), variable ds_data[i].scale may still point to a user-provided address (which could point to arbitrary kernel address), so on an error condition, this user-provided address will be freed (arbitrary free), and continued operation could result in use after free condition.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-06-01 | patch vendor advisory |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623 | third party advisory vdb entry |