CVE-2017-18172 — In a device, with screen size 1440x2560, the check of contiguous buffer will ove

In a device, with screen size 1440x2560, the check of contiguous buffer will overflow on certain buffer size resulting in an Integer Overflow or Wraparound in System UI in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile in version MDM9635M, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD

01What is this vulnerability?

In a device, with screen size 1440x2560, the check of contiguous buffer will overflow on certain buffer size resulting in an Integer Overflow or Wraparound in System UI in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile in version MDM9635M, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 810, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SDM630, SDM636…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Qualcomm, Inc.	Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile	MDM9635M, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 810, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, Snapdragon_High_Med_2016

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-10-23T13:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T21:13:49.059Z

09References

• www.qualcomm.com — https://www.qualcomm.com/company/product-security/bulletins
• source.android.com — https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-07-01#qualcomm-closed-source-c…