High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-2502

Description

drivers/usb/gadget/f_serial.c in the Qualcomm USB driver in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a large size in a GSER_IOCTL ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 27657963 and Qualcomm internal bug CR997044.

Patches

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Vulnerability mechanics

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/nvd

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