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CVE-2015-0572

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Multiple race conditions in drivers/char/adsprpc.c and drivers/char/adsprpc_compat.c in the ADSPRPC driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allow attackers to cause a denial of service (zero-value write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a COMPAT_FASTRPC_IOCTL_INVOKE_FD ioctl call.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 3.0 through 3.19.8

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93312
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=34ad3d34fbff11b8e1210b9da0dac937fb956b61
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=8fb32c3a8147b82e2bb159b3f70d803c9e68899b
• https://www.codeaurora.org/race-condition-leading-arbitrary-null-write-adsp-using-ioctl-compatfastrpcioctlinvokefd-cve-2015
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93312
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=34ad3d34fbff11b8e1210b9da0dac937fb956b61
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=8fb32c3a8147b82e2bb159b3f70d803c9e68899b
• https://www.codeaurora.org/race-condition-leading-arbitrary-null-write-adsp-using-ioctl-compatfastrpcioctlinvokefd-cve-2015

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