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CVE-2018-11265

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.8)—
Severity7.8High · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability0.20 %higher than 10% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

In all android releases (Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, possible buffer overflow while incrementing the log_buf of type uint64_t in memcpy function, since the log_buf pointer can access the memory beyond the size to store the data after pointer increment.

CVSS

Base score
7.8
Version
3.0
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.20 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
10
Score date
10/21/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Google — Android

CWEs

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