CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-0571
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-862
Description
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, does not verify authorization for private SET IOCTL calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to wlan_hdd_hostapd.c and wlan_hdd_wext.c.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.0.0 <= 4.20.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0.0 <= 3.18.66)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization 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
- 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