CVE-2016-6675 Information

Description

Off-by-one error in CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted application that makes a linkspeed ioctl call aka Android internal bug 30873776 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000861.

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/2016-10-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93328 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=1353fa0bd0c78427f3ae7d9bde7daeb75bd01d09

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