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

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
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)