# CVE-2017-9693: 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 be

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-03-30 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- Qualcomm, Inc. Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android: version range not reported

## 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).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Qualcomm, Inc. Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://www.codeaurora.org/security-bulletin/2017/10/20/october-2017-v1
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=05a5abb21e4d97001f77d344444a3ec2f9c275f9
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100210

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