CVE-2017-11079: Google Android

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, with all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, while processing sparse image, uninitialized heap memory can potentially be flashed due to the lack of validation of sparse image block header size.

Affected products

• Google Android: affected versions not specified

Published 2018-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.