# CVE-2017-14885: In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, wma\_unified\_link\_peer\_stats\_

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-03-15 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, wma_unified_link_peer_stats_event_handler function has a variable num_rates which represents the sum of all the peer_stats->num_rates. The current behavior in this function is to validate only the num_rates of the first peer stats (peer_stats->num_rates) against WMA_SVC_MSG_MAX_SIZE, but not the sum of all the peer's num_rates (num_rates) which may lead to a buffer overflow when the firmware buffer is copied in to the allocated buffer (peer_stats) as the size for the memory allocation - link_stats_results_size is based on num_rates.

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## References

- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-03-01
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-3.0/commit/?id=44e992e169dbd601f95e845961cb2181b167a553
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103254

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