CVE-2018-11270

Impact

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, memory allocated with devm_kzalloc is automatically released by the kernel if the probe function fails with an error code. This may result in data corruption.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=d475e1aba3f8be3b135199014549ff9d5c315e1d
• https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-09-01#qualcomm-components
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=d475e1aba3f8be3b135199014549ff9d5c315e1d
• https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/09/04/september-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletin