CVE-2018-9393

Summary

CVE-2018-9393 is a vulnerability affecting the Mediatek WLAN driver in Linux. In the function procfile_write of the file gl_proc.c, there is a lack of bounds checking during a write operation, leading to an out-of-bound (OOB) write. This issue can result in local privilege escalation, granting the attacker System execution privileges without requiring user interaction.

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