High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 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.

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Affected products

Google/Android
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=6.0.1
Qualcomm/Qualcomm USB driverllm-fuzzy
osv-coords3 versions
pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-flo@3.4.0-5.23?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-goldfish@3.4.0-4.27?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial pkg: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

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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