CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6680
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-10
- 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-200
Description
CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_wext.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that makes an iw_set_priv ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 29982678 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1048052.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93309 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=2f2fa073b95d4700de88c0f7558b4a18c13ac552 Vendor Advisory
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93309 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=2f2fa073b95d4700de88c0f7558b4a18c13ac552 Vendor Advisory