Privilege Escalation via Crafted Application in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver on Nexus 7 (2013)

Privilege Escalation via Crafted Application in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver on Nexus 7 (2013)

CVE-2016-3792 · HIGH Severity

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

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices mishandles userspace data copying, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 27725204 and Qualcomm internal bug CR561022.

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