PT-2017-9660 · Google · Android

Published 2017-03-08 · Updated 2017-07-17 · CVE-2016-8483

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/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

Description An information disclosure issue in the Qualcomm power driver could allow a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This could be used to access sensitive data without explicit user permission.

Recommendations For Android version Kernel-3.10, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue, as referenced by Android ID: A-33745862.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-8483

Affected Products

Android

References · 11

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-8483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8483 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=6997dcb7ade1315474855821e64782205cb0b53a · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8483 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8483 · Security Note
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96805 · Note
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-01-01.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1037968 · Note