A vulnerability has been found in Google Android on Nexus 5/Nexus 5x/Nexus 6/Nexus 6P (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Qualcomm Video Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Qualcomm video driver in Android before 2016-06-01 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6, and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 27407865.

The weakness was shared 06/13/2016 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at source.android.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2016-2465 since 02/18/2016. The attack needs to be approached locally. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 2016-06-01 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries 87840, 87841, 87842 and 87843 are related to this item.

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Type

• Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

• Google

Name

• Android

Version

• 0.c
• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.c
• 2.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.3
• 2.3.1
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.6
• 2.3.7
• 2.37
• 2.c
• 2.java
• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.8
• 3.10
• 3.15-rc5-next-20140519
• 3.18
• 4
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.1
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.2
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.3
• 4.3.1
• 4.4
• 4.4.1
• 4.4.1_r1
• 4.4.2
• 4.4.3
• 4.4.4
• 4.9
• 4.14 LTS
• 4.cpp
• 5
• 5.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.1
• 5.1.1
• 5.1.1 LMY48X
• 5.1.1 LMY48Z
• 5.1.1 LMY49C
• 5.1.1 LMY49F
• 5.2
• 6.0
• 6.0 2015-10-01
• 6.0 2015-10-01
• 6.0 2015-11-01
• 6.0 2015-12-01
• 6.0 2015-1201
• 6.0 2016-01-01
• 6.0 2016-06-01
• 6.0 2016-07-01
• 6.0 2016-07-05
• 6.0 Security Patch Level 11-01-2015
• 6.0.1
• 6.1
• 6.cpp
• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 8.
• 8.0
• 8.1
• 9
• 9.0
• 10
• 10.0
• 11
• 11.0
• 12
• 12.0
• 12L
• 13
• 13.0
• 14
• 18.0.1
• 101.c
• 1012
• 2013-01-16
• 2013-07-07

License

• free

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