Unvalidated Data in Qualcomm Components Allows Privilege Escalation on Nexus 7 (2013) Devices

CVE-2015-8939 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

drivers/video/msm/mdp4_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices does not validate r stages, g stages, or b stages data, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28398884 and Qualcomm internal bug CR779021.

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