CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3874
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-09-11
- 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])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_wext.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X devices does not properly validate the arguments array, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a WE_UNIT_TEST_CMD command, aka Android internal bug 29944562 and Qualcomm internal bug CR997797.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 7.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92882 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 www.securitytracker.com
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=50e8f265b3f7926aeb4e49c33f7301ace89faa77 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=a3974e61c960aadcc147c3c5704a67309171642d Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92882 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 www.securitytracker.com
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=50e8f265b3f7926aeb4e49c33f7301ace89faa77 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=a3974e61c960aadcc147c3c5704a67309171642d Issue Tracking, Patch