CVE-2017-8264 Denial of service in All Qualcomm products

What is CVE-2017-8264?

CVE-2017-8264 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

A userspace process can cause a Denial of Service in the camera driver in all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8264?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2017-8264?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8264 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-8264 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8264 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x6h4-889m-mh2v.