PT-2016-5706 · Google · Android

Published 2016-09-11 · Updated 2017-08-13 · CVE-2016-3874

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 2016-09-05

Description The issue is related to the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android, where the wlan hdd wext.c file does not properly validate the arguments array. This allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a WE UNIT TEST CMD command.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-09-05, update to a version released on or after 2016-09-05 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-3874

Affected Products

Android

References · 10

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3874 · Vendor Advisory
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3874 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3874 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=50e8f265b3f7926aeb4e49c33f7301ace89faa77 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3874 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3874 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=a3974e61c960aadcc147c3c5704a67309171642d · Patch
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1036763 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92882 · Note