CVE-2016-0809

Severity

83%

Complexity

65%

Confidentiality

165%

Use-after-free vulnerability in the wifi_cleanup function in bcmdhd/wifi_hal/wifi_hal.cpp in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging access to the local physical environment during execution of a crafted application, aka internal bug 25753768.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the wifi_cleanup function in bcmdhd/wifi_hal/wifi_hal.cpp in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging access to the local physical environment during execution of a crafted application, aka internal bug 25753768.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 8.3. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2016-02-07 01:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-03-14 15:32:00

Affected Software

Google Android 6.0

6.0

Google Android 6.0.1

6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-02-01.html

Vendor Advisory

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/broadcom/wlan/+/2c5a4fac8bc8198f6a2635ede776f8de40a0c3e1

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