CVE-2017-9693 Memory corruption in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android
A buffer over-read in the WLAN driver allows attackers to read extra memory bytes or cause a denial of service on Qualcomm-based Android devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-9693?
CVE-2017-9693 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 30 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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).
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9693?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2017-9693?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-9693 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2017-9693 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9693 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jm9v-cw5j-5j8g.