Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 30, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-17766
CVE-2017-17766
Description
In wma_peer_info_event_handler() in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android before 2017-10-03, the value of num_peers received from firmware is not properly validated so that an integer overflow vulnerability in the size of a buffer allocation may potentially lead to a buffer overflow.
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Affected products
4- Range: <2017-10-03
- Range: <2017-10-03
- Range: <2017-10-03
- 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- source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2018-02-01nvdVendor Advisory
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