CVE-2016-5863 (GCVE-0-2016-5863)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-16 15:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:40
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Improper Validation of Array Index in USB
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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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