CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-9162

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 18, 2018 | Modified: May 09, 2018
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
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile SD 410/12, SD 617, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, and SD 810, in the function Certificate_CreateWithBuffer in the QSEE app TQS, in case of memory allocation failure, we free the memory and return the pointer without setting it to NULL.

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
Sd_410_firmware Qualcomm - (including) - (including)

Potential Mitigations

References