High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published May 17, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-15855
CVE-2017-15855
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, the camera application triggers "user-memory-access" issue as the Camera CPP module Linux driver directly accesses the application provided buffer, which resides in user space. An unchecked userspace value (ioctl_ptr->len) is used to copy contents to a kernel buffer which can lead to kernel buffer overflow.
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Affected products
3- Range: < security patch level 2018-04-05
- Range: < security patch level 2018-04-05
- Qualcomm, Inc./Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Androidv5Range: All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel
Patches
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References
2- www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/03/29/march-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletinnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-04-01nvdThird Party Advisory
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