PT-2016-2598

CVE-2015-8939

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Published

2016-08-06

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Updated

2016-11-28

Description by

CVSS 2.0
9.3
High
MetricsAV: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.
Exploitability
Fix
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
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