7.8high

CVE-2016-5863

In an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, several sanity checks are missing wh…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.6%
percentile 47%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, several sanity checks are missing which can lead to out-of-bounds accesses.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.56% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.09.3AV:N/AC:M/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.codeaurora.org /quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=daf0acd54a6a80de227baef9a06285e4aa5f8c93 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • source.android.com /security/bulletin/2017-07-01 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/99465 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

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