CVE-2016-6679

MEDIUM

Google Android < 7.0 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application that makes a setwpaie ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 29915601 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000913.

References (4)

[Vendor Advisory] http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93309

[Patch] https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=d39345f0abc309959d831d09fcbf1619cc0ae0f5

[Patch] https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/?id=f081695446679aa44baa0d00940ea18455eeb4c5

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0011

EPSS Percentile 29.0%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Affected Products (2)

google/android < 7.0

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Oct 10, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026