CVE-2015-0569

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the private wireless extensions IOCTL implementation in wlan_hdd_wext.c in the WLAN (aka Wi-Fi) driver for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that establishes a packet filter.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 3.0.0 through 3.19.8; from 4.0.0 through 4.20.15

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691
https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39308/
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77691
https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/multiple-issues-wlan-driver-allow-local-privilege-escalation-cve-2015
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39308/

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