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8.8high

CVE-2016-5861

In a display driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a variable controlled by userspace i…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
8.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.5%
percentile 41%
Public exploits
0
none known

In a display driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a variable controlled by userspace is used to calculate offsets and sizes for copy operations, which could result in heap overflow.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.47% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.08.8CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.08.3AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Qualcomm, Inc. All Qualcomm products

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

  • source.android.com /security/bulletin/2017-06-01 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securitytracker.com /id/1038623 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
  • source.codeaurora.org /quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=cf3c97b8b6165f13810e530068fbf94b07f1f77d · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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