CVE-2017-9725: google android Incorrect Calculation
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2017-9725 is a high (CVSS 9.3) Incorrect Calculation vulnerability in google android. EPSS estimates a 1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 7.8, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4Timeline
- 21-09-2017PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 3 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.23%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
69%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 1.23% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu17 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-azureAll versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-azure-edgeAll versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-azure-fdeAll versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- linux< 4.3.1-1
Google1 product
- android≤ 8.0
3 vendors · 19 products
