CVE-2016-3867

CVE-2016-3867 describes an elevation-of-privilege flaw in the Qualcomm IPA driver used by Android on Nexus 5X and 6P, prior to 2016-09-05. A crafted application could gain privileges, per CNVD-2016-07559 and the CVE entry. The root cause and exact exploitation details are not provided in the docu...

CVE-2016-3859

The CVE-2016-3859 issue affects the Qualcomm camera driver in Android on Nexus 5, 5X, 6, and 6P prior to 2016-09-05. The root cause is an elevation of privilege via a crafted application, allowing a local attacker to gain higher privileges within the device. The Android security bulletin notes th...

CVE-2016-3865

The Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X and 9 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 28799389...

CVE-2016-3868

The Qualcomm power driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28967028 and Qualcomm internal bug CR1032875...

CVE-2016-3869

The Broadcom Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, and Pixel C devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29009982 and Broadcom internal bug RB96070...

CVE-2016-3858

Buffer overflow in drivers/soc/qcom/subsystemrestart.c in the Qualcomm subsystem driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that provides a long string, aka Android internal bug 28675151 and Qualcomm internal bug...

CVE-2016-3893

CVE-2016-3893 affects the Qualcomm sound codec on Android devices (Nexus 6P) prior to 2016-09-05. The vulnerability lies in the wcdcal_hwdep_ioctl_shared function in sound/soc/codecs/wcdcal-hwdep.c, which does not properly copy firmware data, enabling a crafted application to cause information di...

CVE-2016-3874

CORE/HDD/src/wlanhddwext.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X devices does not properly validate the arguments array, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a WEUNITTESTCMD command, aka Android internal bug 29944562 and...

CVE-2016-3866

CVE-2016-3866 identifies an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android prior to 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X, 6 and 6P. A crafted application could gain privileges in the context of the kernel via the affected sound-driver path. The issue is listed among multiple Qualc...

CVE-2016-3873

The NVIDIA kernel in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 9 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 29518457...

CVE-2016-3893

The wcdcalhwdepioctlshared function in sound/soc/codecs/wcdcal-hwdep.c in the Qualcomm sound codec in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 6P devices does not properly copy firmware data, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug...

CVE-2016-3865

CVE-2016-3865 affects the Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android on Nexus 5X and Nexus 9, before 2016-09-05. The flaw enables local privilege escalation via a crafted app, caused by elevated-privilege execution within the kernel context. Publicly available patch information is limited; some sour...

Google Patches Quadrooter Vulnerabilities in Android

The Quadrooter vulnerabilities made a lot of people take notice because the scale of affected Android devices more than 900,000 put it on a level with Stagefright and other bugs that impact a large majority of the Android ecosystem. Some details on the four vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed...

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ded The Android Security Bulletin contains details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air OTA update. The Nexus firmware images have also been released to the Google Developer site...

Android 6.0.0 MDA89E / 6.0.1 MMB29V OEM Panic

Vulnerable versions: ================ Android 6.0.0 MDA89E through 6.0.1 MMB29V bootloaders bhz10i/k Non-vulnerable versions: ==================== Android 6.0.1 MHC19J bootloader bhz10m and above. Details: ====== The attacker reboots the phone into the 'fastboot' mode. A physical attacker can do...

Patch Fixes Nexus 5X Lock-Screen Bypass Vulnerability

Google’s Android security team has patched a vulnerability that left Nexus 5X devices open to attack even if the phone’s screen was locked. The vulnerability in Google’s line of phones would have allowed an adversary to exfiltrate data from the targeted phone via a forced memory dump of the devic...

Android on Nexus Qualcomm Component Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-06244)

Android on Nexus 6 is an open source Linux-based operating system for the Nexus 6 smartphone developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Qualcomm is one of the Qualcomm components used in the Qualcomm devices. Qualcomm is a Qualcomm component used in one of the Qualcomm devices. A...

Android on Nexus Qualcomm Component Privilege Acquisition Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-06221)

Android on Nexus 7 is an open source Linux-based operating system for the Nexus 7 smartphone developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Qualcomm is one of the Qualcomm components used in the Qualcomm devices. Qualcomm is a Qualcomm component used in one of Qualcomm's devices. A privile...

Android on Nexus Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-06239)

Android on Nexus 5 and 7 is an open source operating system for the Nexus 5 and 7 smartphones based on Linux, developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.The Linux kernel is the kernel used by Linux, the operating system released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. Linux kerne...

Android on Nexus NVIDIA Privilege Gain Vulnerability

Android on Nexus 9 is an open source operating system running on the Nexus 9 Tablet PC and based on Linux, jointly developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.The NVIDIA media driver is a multimedia driver that is used in the Nexus 9. A privilege acquisition vulnerability exists in the...