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CVE-2016-0844

Published: 18 April 2016

The Qualcomm RF driver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly restrict access to socket ioctl calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26324307.

Notes

AuthorNote
seth-arnold 
The fix appears to be strictly SELinux policy, thus I'm marking
it "not-affected" here

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.4

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
android
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected)
upstream
Released (6.x 2016-04-01)
wily Not vulnerable

xenial Not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.4
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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