CVE-2013-4740 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in the Goodix gt915 touchscreen driver within the Linux kernel 3.x, specifically impacting Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices. Attackers can exploit this by providing crafted user-space length values during procfs file content copies, leading to privilege escalation or denial of service. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity to achieve complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:quic_mobile_station_modem_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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