PT-2016-2598 · Google · Android

Published 2016-08-06 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2015-8939

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Description The issue is related to the lack of validation of num r stages, num g stages, and num b stages data in the drivers/video/msm/mdp4 util.c file of the Qualcomm component in Android. This allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

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

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-01990

CVE-2015-8939

Affected Products

Android

References · 8

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8939 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8939 · Security Note
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01990 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=884cff808385788fa620833c7e2160a4b98a21da · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8939 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8939 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92219 · Note