Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver on Nexus 5X and Android One Devices

Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Qualcomm Wi-Fi Driver on Nexus 5X and Android One Devices

CVE-2016-6679 · MEDIUM Severity

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

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that makes a setwpaie ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 29915601 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000913.

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