CVE-2015-8951

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: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30142668 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 948902.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93317
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=ccff36b07bfc49efc77b9f1b55ed2bf0900b1d5b
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93317
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=ccff36b07bfc49efc77b9f1b55ed2bf0900b1d5b

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