Security Advisory

CVE-2017-6899

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-06-16 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 15:41:17
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.