Use-after-free vulnerability in Wi-Fi cleanup function in Android 6.x before 2016-02-01

Use-after-free vulnerability in Wi-Fi cleanup function in Android 6.x before 2016-02-01

CVE-2016-0809 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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