CVE-2017-8247
HIGHAndroid < 8.0 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Multiple Device Open Operations
Title source: llmDescription
In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, if there is more than one thread doing the device open operation, the device may be opened more than once. This would lead to get_pid being called more than once, however put_pid being called only once in function "msm_close".
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100658
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0040
EPSS Percentile
32.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (1)
google/android
< 8.0
Published
Sep 21, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026