CVE-2015-8951 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8951?

CVE-2015-8951 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 Oct 2016. 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

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30142668 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 948902.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8951?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8951?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-8951 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2015-8951 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8951 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x798-46wr-cwc3.