CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-6899

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2017-06-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

The msm_bus_dbg_update_request_write function in drivers/platform/msm/msm_bus/msm_bus_dbg.c in android_kernel_huawei_msm8916 through 2017-06-16 in LineageOS, and possibly other kernels for MSM devices, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and device crash) via a crafted /sys/kernel/debug/msm-bus-dbg/client-data/update-request write request.

Affected configurations

• lineageos lineageos (<= 2017-06-16)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References