CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-8951

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 may allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

Attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to escalate privileges, posing a significant security risk to devices.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to the latest version to mitigate these vulnerabilities.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30142668 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 948902.

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