CVE-2017-6899: Lineageos

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The msm_bus_dbg_update_request_write function in drivers/platform/msm/msm_bus/msm_bus_dbg.c in android_kernel_huawei_msm8916 through 2017-06-16 in LineageOS, and possibly other kernels for MSM devices, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and device crash) via a crafted /sys/kernel/debug/msm-bus-dbg/client-data/update-request write request.

Affected products

• Lineageos Lineageos: up to and including 2017-06-16

Published 2017-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.