CVE-2015-9208: Qualcomm IPQ4019 Firmware

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear IPQ4019, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M, MDM9640, MDM9645, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 800, and SD 810, the function tzbsp_pil_verify_sig() does not strictly check that the pointer to ELF and program headers and hash segment is within secure memory. It only checks that the address is not in non-secure memory. A given address range can overlap with both secure and non-secure regions - hence if such an address is passed in, it would not pass the non-secure range check, and would be considered valid by the function, even though that memory area could be modified by the non-secure side.

Affected products

Qualcomm IPQ4019 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm MDM9206 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm MDM9607 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm MDM9635M Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm MDM9640 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm MDM9645 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm MSM8909W Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 205 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 212 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 400 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 410 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 412 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 415 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 615 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 616 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 800 Firmware: affected versions not specified
Qualcomm Sd 810 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2018-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.