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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2016-5854

Medium
4.7/10

Summary

In a driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, kernel heap memory can be exposed to userspace.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published