CVE-2018-11298
HIGHAndroid - Buffer Overflow in HDD Passpoint Realm String Handling
Title source: llmDescription
In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, while processing SET_PASSPOINT_LIST vendor command HDD does not make sure that the realm string that gets passed by upper-layer is NULL terminated. This may lead to buffer overflow as strlen is used to get realm string length to construct the PASSPOINT WMA command.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=9074c6cfb9c0bbfe279394eec0d3176c4f75ce80
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0020
EPSS Percentile
10.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (1)
google/android
Published
Sep 18, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026