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A vulnerability was found in Google Android. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Qualcomm Power Driver. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-3868. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (version now known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Qualcomm Power Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Qualcomm power driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28967028 and Qualcomm internal bug CR1032875.

The weakness was shared 09/06/2016 as Android Security Bulletin - September 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-3868 since 03/30/2016. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/15/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 92883†). The entries VDB-91415, VDB-91416, VDB-91417 and VDB-91418 are related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android

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• free

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