In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.
Weakness
The product performs a calculation that generates incorrect or unintended results that are later used in security-critical decisions or resource management.
Affected Software
| Name |
Vendor |
Start Version |
End Version |
| Android |
Google |
* |
8.0 (including) |
Potential Mitigations
- Use languages, libraries, or frameworks that make it easier to handle numbers without unexpected consequences.
- Examples include safe integer handling packages such as SafeInt (C++) or IntegerLib (C or C++).
- Use languages, libraries, or frameworks that make it easier to handle numbers without unexpected consequences.
- Examples include safe integer handling packages such as SafeInt (C++) or IntegerLib (C or C++).
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