CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8943
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not verify that a mapping exists before proceeding with an unmap operation, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28815158 and Qualcomm internal bugs CR794217 and CR836226.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 6.0.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219 www.securityfocus.com
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219 www.securityfocus.com
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee Issue Tracking, Patch