CVE-2017-9725

high
Published 2017-09-21 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.3.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.3.1-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.3.1-1
debian debiansidfixed4.3.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.3.1-1

References

CWEs

CWE-682

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.