CVE-2018-19939 — The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-o

The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-oss and daisy-p-oss as used in Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro devices through 2018-08-27 has a NULL pointer dereference in kfree after a kmalloc failure in gtp_read_Color in drivers/input/touchscreen/gt917d

01What is this vulnerability?

The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-oss and daisy-p-oss as used in Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro devices through 2018-08-27 has a NULL pointer dereference in kfree after a kmalloc failure in gtp_read_Color in drivers/input/touchscreen/gt917d/gt9xx.c.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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

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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: 2018-12-07T09:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T11:51:17.616Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource/issues/972