CVE-2016-2442
high
CVSS v3
7.0
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.0
Description
The Qualcomm buspm driver in Android before 2016-05-01 on Nexus 5X, 6, and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26494907.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
- https://www.codeaurora.org/issues-tsc-tspp2-and-buspm-drivers-cve-2015-0573-cve-2016-2441-cve-2016-2442
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
- https://www.codeaurora.org/issues-tsc-tspp2-and-buspm-drivers-cve-2015-0573-cve-2016-2441-cve-2016-2442
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.