Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-15842 - Use After Free vulnerability in Google Android

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
LOW
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
google
CWE-416

Summary

Buffer might get used after it gets freed due to unlocking the mutex before freeing the buffer in all Android releases from CAF (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) using the Linux Kernel.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Google
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)