Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm RF Driver on Android 6.x

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm RF Driver on Android 6.x

CVE-2016-0844 · HIGH Severity

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

The Qualcomm RF driver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly restrict access to socket ioctl calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26324307.

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