CVE-2017-9687 is a high-severity double-free and use-after-free vulnerability affecting Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android releases using the Linux kernel from CAF. It arises from a race condition when writing to a debugfs file controlling ipa ipc logs, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 7.8, a local attacker can achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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