CVE-2015-8943

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/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not verify that a mapping exists before proceeding with an unmap operation, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28815158 and Qualcomm internal bugs CR794217 and CR836226.

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/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee

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