vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-5848: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 12, 2018
Added
Mar 15, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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