Qualcomm Chip Flaw Leaves 900m Android Devices Open to Attack

Four vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm chips used in 900 million Android devices leave affected phones and tablets open to attacks that could give hackers complete system control. Researchers at Check Point who found the flaw are calling the vulnerability Quadrooter and say that a patch isn’t...

CVE-2016-5340

The isashmemfile function in drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c in a certain Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android patch for the Linux kernel 3.x mishandles pointer validation within the KGSL Linux Graphics Module, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by using the /ashmem...

CVE-2016-2065

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c in the MSM QDSP6 audio driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and memory corruption or...

CVE-2016-2064

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c in the MSM QDSP6 audio driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read or possibly have unspecified...

CVE-2016-2063

Stack-based buffer overflow in the supplylminputwrite function in drivers/thermal/supplylmcore.c in the MSM Thermal driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service o...

CVE-2015-0573

drivers/media/platform/msm/broadcast/tsc.c in the TSC driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other...

CVE-2014-9410

The vfe31procgeneral function in drivers/media/video/msm/vfe/msmvfe31.c in the MSM-VFE31 driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not validate a certain id value, which allows attackers to gain...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in the supplylminputwrite function in drivers/thermal/supplylmcore.c in the MSM Thermal driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service o...

CVE-2015-0568

Use-after-free vulnerability in the msmsetcrop function in drivers/media/video/msm/msmcamera.c in the MSM-Camera driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in the msmsetcrop function in drivers/media/video/msm/msmcamera.c in the MSM-Camera driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a...

Null pointer dereference

The isashmemfile function in drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c in a certain Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android patch for the Linux kernel 3.x mishandles pointer validation within the KGSL Linux Graphics Module, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by using the /ashmem...

CVE-2016-5340

The isashmemfile function in drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c in a certain Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android patch for the Linux kernel 3.x mishandles pointer validation within the KGSL Linux Graphics Module, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by using the /ashmem...

CVE-2016-2064

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c in the MSM QDSP6 audio driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read or possibly have unspecified...

CVE-2016-2065

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c in the MSM QDSP6 audio driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and memory corruption or...

Design/Logic Flaw

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c in the MSM QDSP6 audio driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read or possibly have unspecified...

CVE-2014-9410

The vfe31procgeneral function in drivers/media/video/msm/vfe/msmvfe31.c in the MSM-VFE31 driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not validate a certain id value, which allows attackers to gain...

CVE-2016-2063

Stack-based buffer overflow in the supplylminputwrite function in drivers/thermal/supplylmcore.c in the MSM Thermal driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service o...

Memory corruption

The vfe31procgeneral function in drivers/media/video/msm/vfe/msmvfe31.c in the MSM-VFE31 driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not validate a certain id value, which allows attackers to gain...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0573

drivers/media/platform/msm/broadcast/tsc.c in the TSC driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference or possibly have unspecified other...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2065

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-audio-effects-q6-v2.c in the MSM QDSP6 audio driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center QuIC Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and memory corruption or...