Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 3, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-15837

Description

In Qualcomm Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel before security patch level 2018-04-05, a policy for the packet pattern attribute NL80211_PKTPAT_OFFSET is not defined which can lead to a buffer over-read in nla_get_u32().

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Affected products

Qualcomm/QRD Androidllm-create
Range: <2018-04-05
Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
Range: <2018-04-05
Mozilla Corporation/Firefoxllm-fuzzy
Range: <2018-04-05
Qualcomm, Inc./Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Androidv5
Range: All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-04-01nvdVendor Advisory

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