High severity8.0NVD Advisory· Published Jul 6, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-5872

Description

While parsing over-the-air information elements in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) before security patch level 2018-07-05, the use of an out-of-range pointer offset can occur.

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Affected products

Qualcomm/qca-wifi-host-cmnllm-create
Range: < 2018-07-05
Qualcomm, Inc./Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Androidv5
Range: All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel

Patches

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-07-01nvdPatchVendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qca-wifi-host-cmn/commit/nvdPatch
www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2018/07/02/july-2018-code-aurora-security-bulletinnvdPatch

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