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high 7.5

CVE-2017-11089 json

In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overread is observ…

published 2017-11-16 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-2726

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 61%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overread is observed in nl80211_set_station when user space application sends attribute NL80211_ATTR_LOCAL_MESH_POWER_MODE with data of size less than 4 bytes

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.12.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11089

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-144.193
  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-93.116
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1032.41
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.13.0-1002.5
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1028.28
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.13.0-32.35~16.04.1
  • linux-raspi2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1071.79
  • linux-lts-xenial Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-93.116~14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11089

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-ec2 SLE Module for Public Cloud 12 3.12.74-60.64.88.1
  • kernel-xen SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 3.12.74-60.64.88.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 3.12.74-60.64.88.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 3.12.74-60.64.88.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 3.12.74-60.64.88.1
  • kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP1_Update_27 SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS, OpenStack Cloud 6 1-2.3.1
  • kernel-ec2 SLE Module for Public Cloud 12 3.12.61-52.128.1
  • kernel-xen SLES 12-LTSS 3.12.61-52.128.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1220-1SUSE-SU-2018:1221-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-11089 updated cvss 6.4

kernel: Out-of-bounds read in nl80211_set_station allows privileged local attacker to cause system crash or possibly code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-alt, python-perf, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-core, kernel-tools, python3-perf, +17 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Qualcomm, Inc. Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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