CVE-2017-15824
MEDIUMAndroid - Information Exposure via Uninitialized Stack Buffer in UpdateDeviceStatus
Title source: llmDescription
In Android releases from CAF using the linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-06-05, the function UpdateDeviceStatus() writes a local stack buffer without initialization to flash memory using WriteToPartition() which may potentially leak memory.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-06-01#qualcomm-components
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
4.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-772
Status
published
Products (1)
google/android
Published
Jul 06, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026