FKIE_CVE-2015-0571

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-05-09 10:59 - Updated: 2025-04-12 10:46
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.htmlVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015Broken Link
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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