Qualcomm Driver: Duplicate IOCTL FD Leads to Memory Corruption
CVE-2025-59616 Published on July 6, 2026
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Memory Corruption when processing multiple IOCTL calls with the same buffer file descriptor input due to accessing already freed memory.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-59616 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction and a small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a small impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?
Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.
CVE-2025-59616 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-59616
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Affected Versions
Qualcomm, Inc. Snapdragon:- Version FastConnect 6700 is affected.
- Version FastConnect 6900 is affected.
- Version FastConnect 7800 is affected.
- Version Molokai is affected.
- Version Orne is affected.
- Version Pandeiro is affected.
- Version QCM5430 is affected.
- Version QCM6490 is affected.
- Version QMP1000 is affected.
- Version QMP2001 is affected.
- Version Qualcomm Video Collaboration VC3 Platform is affected.
- Version SC8380XP is affected.
- Version SD865 5G is affected.
- Version SM6850 is affected.
- Version SM8845P is affected.
- Version Snapdragon 460 Mobile Platform is affected.
- Version Snapdragon 662 Mobile Platform is affected.
- Version Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is affected.
- Version Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 Platform is affected.
- Version Snapdragon XR2 5G Platform is affected.
- Version Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 Platform is affected.
- Version SXR2230P is affected.
- Version SXR2250P is affected.
- Version WCD9370 is affected.
- Version WCD9375 is affected.
- Version WCD9378 is affected.
- Version WCD9380 is affected.
- Version WCD9385 is affected.
- Version WCD9395 is affected.
- Version WCN3950 is affected.
- Version WCN3988 is affected.
- Version WCN6450 is affected.
- Version WCN7760 is affected.
- Version WCN7860 is affected.
- Version WCN7861 is affected.
- Version WCN7880 is affected.
- Version WCN7881 is affected.
- Version WSA8810 is affected.
- Version WSA8815 is affected.
- Version WSA8830 is affected.
- Version WSA8832 is affected.
- Version WSA8835 is affected.
- Version WSA8840 is affected.
- Version WSA8845 is affected.
- Version WSA8845H is affected.
- Version WSA8850 is affected.
- Version WSA8850W is affected.
- Version WSA8855C is affected.