CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-0569
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the private wireless extensions IOCTL implementation in wlan_hdd_wext.c in the WLAN (aka Wi-Fi) driver for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that establishes a packet filter.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0.0 <= 3.19.8)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.0.0 <= 4.20.15)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39308/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39308/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry