CVE-2017-8280

High

Published: 21/09/2017(UTC)Translated: 15/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

In Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF, during the wlan calibration data store and retrieve operation, there are potential race conditions that lead to a memory leak and a buffer overflow during the context switch.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to system instability and potential control takeover by a malicious user.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the software to the latest version to mitigate the risks associated with this vulnerability.

Other vulnerabilities in Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF

CVE-2017-8278High
In Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF, while reading audio data from an unspecified driver, a buffer overflow or integer overflow could occur.

Original NVD description (English source)

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during the wlan calibration data store and retrieve operation, there are some potential race conditions which lead to a memory leak and a buffer overflow during the context switch.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS