CVE-2015-6614 Privilege escalation in n/a
A crafted application can gain privileges to bypass network restrictions, cause expensive data transfers, or trigger denial of service in Android telephony.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-6614?
CVE-2015-6614 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 3 Nov 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Telephony in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY48X allows attackers to gain privileges, and consequently bypass intended network-interface restrictions, perform expensive data transfers, or cause a denial of service (call-reception outage or mute manipulation), via a crafted application, aka internal bug 21900139.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6614?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2015-6614?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-6614 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2015-6614 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6614 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f2x8-pj2f-f4mm.