CVE-2018-3578

HIGH

Android - Heap Buffer Overflow in WLAN Driver via ie_len Type Mismatch

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Type mismatch for ie_len can cause the WLAN driver to allocate less memory on the heap due to implicit casting leading to a heap buffer overflow in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0046
EPSS Percentile 36.2%
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-119
Status published
Products (1)
google/android
Published Jun 06, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026