CVE-2017-9705 Use after free in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

What is CVE-2017-9705?

CVE-2017-9705 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, concurrent rx notifications and read() operations in the G-Link PKT driver can result in a double free condition due to missing locking resulting in list_del() and list_add() overlapping and corrupting the next and previous pointers.

Weakness: CWE-415

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-9705?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2017-9705?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-9705 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2017-9705 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-9705 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jc77-r77v-vcqh.