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CVE-2015-0573

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0573 describes an invalid pointer dereference vulnerability in the TSC driver (drivers/media/platform/msm/broadcast/tsc.c) of the Linux kernel 3.x, specifically affecting Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices. This critical vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts via a crafted application making a TSC_GET_CARD_STATUS ioctl call. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0, <= 3.19.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0168 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-0573Moderate

kernel: DoS in drivers/media/platform/msm/broadcast/tsc.c in TSC driver

Sep 6, 2015

References

us.codeaurora.org / cgit/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.10/commit
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
codeaurora.org / issues-tsc-tspp2-and-buspm-drivers-cve-2015-0573-cve-2016-2441-cve-2016-2442
Broken Link