Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm ARM Processor Performance-Event Manager

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm ARM Processor Performance-Event Manager

CVE-2016-0843 · HIGH Severity

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

The Qualcomm ARM processor performance-event manager in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25801197.

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