CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-15846

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 30, 2018 | Modified: Apr 24, 2018
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In the video_ioctl2() function in the camera driver in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android before 2017-09-16, an untrusted pointer dereference may potentially occur.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Android Google - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References