CVE-2018-5844 in Android

Summary

In the video driver function set_output_buffers(), binfo can be accessed after being freed in a failure scenario in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

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• Reservation: 01/19/2018
• Disclosure: 06/12/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-119426
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-416 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.8
• EPSS: 0.00043
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5844
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5844
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-5844/