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Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types Affecting kernel-bootwrapper package, versions <0:3.10.0-862.el7

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on CentOS security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-2101584
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 12 Oct 2015
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Introduced: 12 Oct 2015

CVE-2017-9725 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-681 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:7 kernel-bootwrapper to version 0:3.10.0-862.el7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-bootwrapper package and not the kernel-bootwrapper package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, during DMA allocation, due to wrong data type of size, allocation size gets truncated which makes allocation succeed when it should fail.