CVE-2016-0809

Published: 7 February 2016

Use-after-free vulnerability in the wifi_cleanup function in bcmdhd/wifi_hal/wifi_hal.cpp in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging access to the local physical environment during execution of a crafted application, aka internal bug 25753768.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
android Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was ignored)
	upstream	Needs triage
	wily	Ignored
	xenial	Ignored
	yakkety	Ignored
	zesty	Ignored

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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