CVE-2015-0569: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the private wireless extensions IOCTL implementation in wlan_hdd_wext.c in the WLAN (aka Wi-Fi) driver for the Linux kernel 3.x and 4.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that establishes a packet filter.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.0.0, up to and including 3.19.8; from 4.0.0, up to and including 4.20.15

Published 2016-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.