High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-2067
CVE-2016-2067
Description
drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c in the MSM graphics driver (aka GPU driver) for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, mishandles the KGSL_MEMFLAGS_GPUREADONLY flag, which allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging accidental read-write mappings, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR988993.
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Affected products
5- osv-coords3 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-flo@3.4.0-5.23?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-goldfish@3.4.0-4.27?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-mako@3.4.0-7.44?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial
>= 0+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
Patches
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References
3- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/nvdMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
- www.codeaurora.org/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-graphics-driver-cve-2016-2067nvdBroken Link
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