CVE-2018-11842 is a memory management vulnerability affecting Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel. It involves a driver attempting to free unallocated memory during WLAN association. Rated 7.8 HIGH, this local vulnerability (AV:L) allows an attacker with low privileges (PR:L) to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H) with low attack complexity (AC:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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