PT-2017-9658 · Google · Android

Published 2017-03-08 · Updated 2017-07-17 · CVE-2016-8477

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18

Description An information disclosure issue in the Qualcomm camera driver could allow a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue requires compromising a privileged process.

Recommendations For Android versions Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18, consider restricting access to the Qualcomm camera driver until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, review and limit applications with privileged process access to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8477

Affected Products

Android

References · 13

• 🔥 https://github.com/derrekr/android_security/blob/master/CVE-2016-8477/msm_eeprom_name_infoleak_main.c · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8477 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8477 · Security Note
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=96145eb5f0631f0e105d47abebc8f940f7621eeb · Patch
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=33c9042e38506b04461fa99e304482bc20923508 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01 · Note
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1037968 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96749 · Note