CVE-2016-8436

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm video driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing t...

CVE-2016-8434

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm GPU driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

CVE-2016-8422

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm bootloader could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities (USN-3161-4)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3161-4 advisory. Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to...

USN-3161-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities

Tilman Schmidt and Sasha Levin discovered a use-after-free condition in the TTY implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2015-8964 It was discovered that the Video For Linux Two v4l2 implementation in the Linux kernel d...

Google Android Qualcomm Sound Driver Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Android on Nexus 5X is an open source Linux-based operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA for the Nexus 5X, etc. Qualcomm Sound Driver is a Qualcomm-developed sound driver used in the Nexus 5X. Qualcomm Sound Driver is a sound driver developed by Qualcomm. An...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12239)

Google Nexus 5X, etc. are smart devices of Google Inc. of the U.S.A. Qualcomm is a Qualcomm component used exclusively in devices of Qualcomm Inc. of the U.S.A. in which it is used. The Google Nexus Qualcomm component has an information disclosure vulnerability that could be exploited by an...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Component Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Google Nexus 5X, etc. are smart devices of Google Inc. of the U.S.A. Qualcomm is a Qualcomm component used exclusively in devices of Qualcomm Inc. of the U.S.A. in which it is used. The Google Nexus Qualcomm component has an information disclosure vulnerability that could be exploited by an...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Sound driver elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12201)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and the Qualcomm Sound Driver is a Qualcomm-developed sound driver used in it. A power lifting vulnerability exists in the Qualcomm Sound Driver in Android on multiple Google devices. The...

Google Nexus Qualcomm MSM Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Android on Nexus 6 is a Linux-based open source operating system for the Nexus 6 smart device developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA in the U.S. Qualcomm MSM is one of the processors developed by Qualcomm that is used in the Nexus 6. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists i...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Media Codecs Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Android on Google Pixel XL, etc. is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA for use on Google Pixel XL smart devices, etc. Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of the Qualcomm Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of Qualcomm's multimedia codec components...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Media Codecs elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12167)

Android on Google Pixel XL, etc. is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA for use on Google Pixel XL smart device, etc. Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of the Qualcomm Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of Qualcomm's multimedia codec components. ...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Sound Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and the Qualcomm Sound Driver is a Qualcomm-developed sound driver used in it. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Qualcomm Sound Driver in Android on multiple Google...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Media Codecs elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12168)

Android on Google Pixel XL, etc. is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA for use on Google Pixel XL smart device, etc. Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of the Qualcomm Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of Qualcomm's multimedia codec components. ...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Camera Driver elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12174)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and Qualcomm Camera Driver is a camera driver developed by Qualcomm. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Qualcomm Camera Driver for Android. The vulnerability ca...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Sound driver elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12200)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA, and the Qualcomm Sound Driver is a Qualcomm-developed sound driver used in it. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Qualcomm Sound Driver in Android on multiple Google...

Google Nexus Qualcomm Media Codecs elevation of privilege vulnerability (CNVD-2016-12169)

Android on Google Pixel XL, etc. is a Linux-based open source operating system developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA for use on Google Pixel XL smart device, etc. Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of the Qualcomm Qualcomm Media Codecs is one of Qualcomm's multimedia codec components. ...

Code injection

The GPS component in Android before 2016-12-05 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service GPS signal-acquisition delay via an incorrect xtra.bin or xtra2.bin file on a spoofed Qualcomm gpsonextra.net or izatcloud.net host, aka internal bug 31470303 and external bug 211602 and...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerability (USN-3151-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3151-3 advisory. Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial o...

Dirty Cow Vulnerability Patched in Android Security Bulletin

The Dirty Cow vulnerability lived in Linux for close to a decade, and while it was patched in October in the kernel and in Linux distributions, Android users had to wait for more than a month for their fix. Today, Google included a patch for CVE-2016-5195 in the monthly Android Security Bulletin,...