Qualcomm Snapdragon IOCTL Call memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component IOCTL Call Handler. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-59616. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Qualcomm Snapdragon (the affected version is unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component IOCTL Call Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Memory Corruption when processing multiple IOCTL calls with the same buffer file descriptor input due to accessing already freed memory.

The advisory is available at docs.qualcomm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-59616 since 09/18/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/07/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Chip Software

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• Qualcomm

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• Snapdragon

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.qualcomm.com/

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