Denial of Service Vulnerability in Qualcomm Bootloader on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Qualcomm Bootloader on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

CVE-2015-8893 · MEDIUM Severity

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

app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to cause a denial of service (OS outage or buffer over-read) via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28822690 and Qualcomm internal bug CR822275.

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