The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of Qualcomm’s Android operating system stems from buffer overflow attacks. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to enhance their privileges through a specially created application, which is related to the files arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/audioutils.c and...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 2013 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/audioutils.c and sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/q6asm.c, aka Android internal bug 28751152 and...