CVE-2015-9162

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile SD 410/12, SD 617, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, and SD 810, in the function "Certificate_CreateWithBuffer" in the QSEE app TQS, in case of memory allocation failure, we free the memory and return the pointer without setting it to NULL.

Affected products

Qualcomm Sd 410 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 412 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 617 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 650 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 652 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 800 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 808 Firmware: all versions
Qualcomm Sd 810 Firmware: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103671
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103671
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-04-01

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