Escalation of privileges through a Heap Overflow in camera sensor driver (CVE-2016-6755)
Release Date:
December 6, 2016
Affected Projects:
Android for MSMFirefox OS for MSMQRD Android
Advisory ID:
QCIR-2016-00070-1
CVE ID(s):
Summary:
The following security vulnerabilities have been identified: CVE-2016-6755 When processing the VIDIOC_MSM_ACTUATOR_CFG ioctl command in the camera sensor driver a heap overflow can be caused if (a_ctrl->total_steps + 1) equals (a_ctrl->i2c_tbl_index) in the loop in the msm_actuator_parse_i2c_params() function.
Access Vector: Local
Security Risk: High
Access Vector: Local
Affected Versions:
All Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel.
Patch:
We advise customers to apply the following patches:
Individual Patches
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- CVE-2016-6755:
Acknowledgement:
This issue was reported to Google by Pengfei Ding(丁鹏飞) of Baidu X-LAB. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) thanks Google for bringing this issue to QuIC's attention.
Revisions:
Initial
Contact:
security-advisory@quicinc.com