Off-by-one buffer overflow vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver on Android devices

Off-by-one buffer overflow vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver on Android devices

CVE-2016-6676 · HIGH Severity

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

Off-by-one error in CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_cfg.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted application that makes a GET_CFG ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 30874066 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000853.

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