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CVE-2016-5861 (GCVE-0-2016-5861)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-16 15:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:52
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input in Display
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Qualcomm, Inc. All Qualcomm products Affected: Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android
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Date Public
2017-05-01 00:00
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