Off-by-one error in CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted application that makes a linkspeed ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 30873776 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000861.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html | vendor advisory |
| https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=1353fa0bd0c78427f3ae7d9bde7daeb75bd01d09 | third party advisory patch |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93328 | vdb entry third party advisory |