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CVE-2016-5855

In a driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a user-supplied buffer is casted to a struct…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.7
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.5%
percentile 40%
Public exploits
0
none known

In a driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a user-supplied buffer is casted to a structure without checking if the source buffer is large enough.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.46% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.04.7CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD2.02.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Qualcomm, Inc. All Qualcomm products

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

  • source.codeaurora.org /quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=a5edb54e93ba85719091fe2bc426d75fa7059834 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/98220 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • source.android.com /security/bulletin/2017-05-01 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred

Sources

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