CVE-2015-8943 Information

Description

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not verify that a mapping exists before proceeding with an unmap operation which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application aka Android internal bug 28815158 and Qualcomm internal bugs CR794217 and CR836226.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8