CVE-2018-9388 Memory corruption in Android

What is CVE-2018-9388?

CVE-2018-9388 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 5 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In store_upgrade and store_cmd of drivers/input/touchscreen/stm/ftm4_pdc.c, there are out of bound writes due to missing bounds checks or integer underflows. These could lead to escalation of privilege.

Weakness: CWE-191, CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-9388?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2018-9388?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-9388 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-2018-9388 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-9388 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2025-48543 Android Runtime Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2023-35674 Android Framework Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2025-48595 Android Framework Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2024-32896 Android Pixel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.1

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6rp7-x538-xh3v.