CVE-2018-5848 Information

Description

In the function wmi_set_ie() the length validation code does not handle unsigned integer overflow properly. As a result a large value of the ‘ie_len’ argument can cause a buffer overflow in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM Firefox OS for MSM QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00017.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00034.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00004.html https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-05-01 https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/05/11/may-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin-2

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8