CVE-2016-2502

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

drivers/usb/gadget/f_serial.c in the Qualcomm USB driver in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a large size in a GSER_IOCTL ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 27657963 and Qualcomm internal bug CR997044.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=0bc45d7712eabe315ce8299a49d16433c3801156
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=0bc45d7712eabe315ce8299a49d16433c3801156

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