CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-9038

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 18, 2017 | Modified: Aug 23, 2017

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

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

CVSS 2.x

10 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9038
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a NULL pointer may be dereferenced in the front end.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Android	Google	*	*

Potential Mitigations

References

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