Privilege Escalation via Socket Process Mishandling in Qualcomm Components on Nexus Devices

CVE-2015-8937 · MEDIUM Severity

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

drivers/char/diag/diagchar_core.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 6, and 7 (2013) devices mishandles a socket process, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803962 and Qualcomm internal bug CR770548.

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