CVE-2015-8941

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: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/isp/msm_isp_axi_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 6 and 7 (2013) devices does not properly validate array indexes, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28814502 and Qualcomm internal bug CR792473.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=d4d4d1dd626b21e68e78395bab3382c1eb04877f
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=d4d4d1dd626b21e68e78395bab3382c1eb04877f

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