CVE-2015-8943

high

Published 2016-08-06 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

6.8

VIR risk

7.8

Description

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_util.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not verify that a mapping exists before proceeding with an unmap operation, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28815158 and Qualcomm internal bugs CR794217 and CR836226.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8943

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ad376e4053b87bd58f62f45b6df2c5544bc21aee

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.