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Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVE-2017-8267

High
7/10

Summary

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a race condition exists in an IOCTL handler potentially leading to an integer overflow and then an out-of-bounds write.

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

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The software performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published