Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 30, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-9693
CVE-2017-9693
Description
The length of attribute value for STA_EXT_CAPABILITY in __wlan_hdd_change_station in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android before 2017-06-06 being less than the actual lenth of StaParams.extn_capability results in a read for extra bytes when a memcpy is done from params->ext_capab to StaParams.extn_capability using the sizeof(StaParams.extn_capability).
Affected products
2- Range: < 2017-06-06
- Qualcomm, Inc./Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Androidv5Range: All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
3- source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/100210nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2017/10/20/october-2017-v1nvdThird Party Advisory
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