Privilege Escalation via Crafted SENDACTIONFRAME Command in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver on Nexus 5X Devices

Privilege Escalation via Crafted SENDACTIONFRAME Command in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver on Nexus 5X Devices

CVE-2016-3905 · HIGH Severity

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

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_main.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a SENDACTIONFRAME command, aka Android internal bug 28061823 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1001449.

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