Qualcomm Android OS kernel privilege escalation and denial of service vulnerabilites

Overview Android OS kernels running on certain Qualcomm devices contain multiple vulnerabilities which could allow an attacker to cause privilege escalation or Denial of Service DoS. Description The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. advisory states:Summary: A locally installed application can caus...

CVE-2012-4222

CVE-2012-4222 refers to the Qualcomm KGSL kernel-mode driver in Android 2.3–4.2, where a crafted kgsl_ioctl input can trigger a NULL pointer dereference, causing DoS. Connected docs also cover CVE-2012-4220 (diagchar_core.c) and CVE-2012-4221 (diagchar_core.c/integer overflow) with local DIAG/DIA...