PT-2016-2594 · Google · Android

Published 2016-08-06 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2015-8943

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2016-08-05

Description The issue is related to the drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss mdp util.c file in the Qualcomm components of the Android operating system. It does not verify that a mapping exists before proceeding with an unmap operation. This allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-08-05, update the operating system to a version released after 2016-08-05 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-01986

CVE-2015-8943

Affected Products

Android

References · 8

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8943 · Vendor Advisory
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01986 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8943 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8943 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8943 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92219 · Note