CVE-2015-8940

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in google android. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/q6lsm.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 6 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28813987 and Qualcomm internal bug CR792367.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2016-08-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

google:android

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=e13ebd727d161db7003be6756e61283dce85fa3b
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219

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