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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2015-0571

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

May 9, 2016

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

May 27, 2026

Description

The WLAN (aka Wi-Fi) driver for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not verify authorization for private SET IOCTL calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to wlan_hdd_hostapd.c and wlan_hdd_wext.c.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2015-0571
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2015-0571
CWE-862
EUVD-EUVD-2015-0584
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-0584

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