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Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVE-2017-15860

High
7.8/10

Summary

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, while processing an encrypted authentication management frame, a stack buffer overflow may potentially occur.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

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  • Published