CVE-2018-5891: Qualcomm MSM8909W Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

While processing modem SSR after IMS is registered, the IMS data daemon is restarted but the ipc_dataHandle is no longer available. Consequently, the DPL thread frees the internal memory for dataDHandle but the local variable pointer is not updated which can lead to a Use After Free condition in Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear.

Affected products

• Qualcomm MSM8909W Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm MSM8996AU Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 205 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 212 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 415 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 450 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 615 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 616 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 625 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 650 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 652 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 820 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 835 Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Qualcomm Sd 845 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2018-07-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.