CVE-2015-9222 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting various Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Wear platforms. Processing malformed bitstreams can lead to a hardware freeze, which escalates to an infinite loop and device freeze due to an improperly disabled watchdog timer. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely cause a complete system unavailability without user interaction. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 96/100 indicates a significant potential impact.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:msm8909w_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_210_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_212_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_205_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:sd_400_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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