CVE-2016-10490 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, affecting various Automobile, Mobile, and Wear platforms running Android before the 2018-04-05 security patch level. This flaw arises from a typecasting error when a negative value is passed to the qurt_qdi_state_local_new_handle_from_obj function. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability allows for remote, unauthenticated attacks with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9206_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9607_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9625_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9635m_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:qualcomm:mdm9640_firmware:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.