PT-2017-9659 · Google · Android

Jianqiang Zhao + 1 · Published 2017-03-08 · Updated 2017-07-17 · CVE-2016-8478

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 prior to the fixed version

Description An information disclosure issue in the Qualcomm video 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 prior to the fixed version, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue to prevent local malicious applications from accessing data outside of their permission levels.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8478

Affected Products

Android

References · 11

• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=e3af5e89426f1c8d4e703d415eff5435b925649f · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8478 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8478 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8478 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8478 · 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/96734 · Note