Vulnerability
CVE-2015-9222
In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, SD 450, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, SD 845, SDM630, SDM636, SDM660, and Snapdragon_High_Med_2016, processing erroneous bitstreams may result in a HW freeze. FW should detect the HW freeze based on watchdog timer, but because the watchdog timer is not enabled, an infinite loop occurs, resulting in a device freeze.
Impact
Severity (Manufact.)
N/A
Severity (NIST)
7.5
Severity (Android)
N/A
Chipsets
4
Devices
160
Affected Hardware
Information reliability
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Timeline
Introduced (est):
Apr 1, 2017
Reported:
Unknown
Advisory Published:
N/A
CVE Published:
Apr 18, 2018
Android Patch Level:
None
