CVE-2018-21086: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with L(5.x), M(6.0), and N(7.x) software. There is a race condition with a resultant double free in vnswap_init_backing_storage. The Samsung ID is SVE-2017-11177 (February 2018).

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 5.1.1 only; …

Published 2020-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.