CVE-2015-8943

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2016-08-06

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Android (Google)

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee