Privilege Escalation in Qualcomm Camera Driver on Nexus and Android One Devices

Privilege Escalation in Qualcomm Camera Driver on Nexus and Android One Devices

CVE-2016-3903 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/csid/msm_csid.c in the Qualcomm camera driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29513227 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1040857.

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