CVE-2015-0573

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

drivers/media/platform/msm/broadcast/tsc.c in the TSC driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that makes a TSC_GET_CARD_STATUS ioctl call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 3.0 through 3.19.8

References

https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=e20f20aaed6b6d2fd1667bad9be9ef35103a51df
https://www.codeaurora.org/issues-tsc-tspp2-and-buspm-drivers-cve-2015-0573-cve-2016-2441-cve-2016-2442
https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=e20f20aaed6b6d2fd1667bad9be9ef35103a51df
https://www.codeaurora.org/issues-tsc-tspp2-and-buspm-drivers-cve-2015-0573-cve-2016-2441-cve-2016-2442

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