Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Camera Driver on Nexus 6 Devices

CVE-2015-8942 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/pproc/cpp/msm_cpp.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 6 devices does not validate the stream state, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28814652 and Qualcomm internal bug CR803246.

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