CVE-2017-10996: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, out of bounds access is possible in c_show(), due to compat_hwcap_str[] not being NULL-terminated. This error is not fatal, however the device might crash/reboot with memory violation/out of bounds access.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 8.0

Published 2017-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.