CVE-2015-8890

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

platform/msm_shared/partition_parser.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate certain GUID Partition Table (GPT) data, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted MultiMediaCard (MMC), aka Android internal bug 28822878 and Qualcomm internal bug CR823461.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=e22aca36da2bb6f5016f3c885eb8c8ff85c115e4
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=e22aca36da2bb6f5016f3c885eb8c8ff85c115e4

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