Critical severity · published Aug 7, 2016
CVE-2015-0573
drivers/media/platform/msm/broadcast/tsc.c in the TSC driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other…
9.8
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
drivers/media/platform/msm/broadcast/tsc.c in the TSC driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that makes a TSC_GET_CARD_STATUS ioctl call.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
3.0 through 3.19.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0573
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0573
Mailing List
https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=e20f20aaed6b6d2fd1667bad9be9ef35103a51df
Broken Link
https://www.codeaurora.org/issues-tsc-tspp2-and-buspm-drivers-cve-2015-0573-cve-2016-2441-cve-2016-2442
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