CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-8939

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices, r stages, g stages, or b stages data is not validated, allowing attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to the system, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to a version after 2016-08-05 to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

drivers/video/msm/mdp4_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices does not validate r stages, g stages, or b stages data, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28398884 and Qualcomm internal bug CR779021.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS