CVE-2017-9681: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Android before 2017-08-05 on Qualcomm MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, and all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, if kernel memory address is passed from userspace through iris_vidioc_s_ext_ctrls ioctl, it will print kernel address data. A user could set it to an arbitrary kernel address, hence information disclosure (for kernel) could occur.

Affected products

• Google Android: affected versions not specified

Published 2018-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.