CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2067
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-07-11
- 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-269
Description
drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c in the MSM graphics driver (aka GPU driver) for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, mishandles the KGSL_MEMFLAGS_GPUREADONLY flag, which allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging accidental read-write mappings, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR988993.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 6.0.1)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0 <= 3.19.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=410cfa95f0a1cf58819cbfbd896f9aa45b004ac0 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.codeaurora.org/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-graphics-driver-cve-2016-2067 Broken Link
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=410cfa95f0a1cf58819cbfbd896f9aa45b004ac0 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.codeaurora.org/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-graphics-driver-cve-2016-2067 Broken Link