CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5342
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the wcnss_wlan_write function in drivers/net/wireless/wcnss/wcnss_wlan.c in the wcnss_wlan device driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to /dev/wcnss_wlan with an unexpected amount of data.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 7.0)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0 <= 3.19.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92693 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=579e796cb089324c55e0e689a180575ba81b23d9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.codeaurora.org/buffer-overflow-vulnerability-wcnsswlanwrite-cve-2016-5342 Broken Link
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92693 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=579e796cb089324c55e0e689a180575ba81b23d9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.codeaurora.org/buffer-overflow-vulnerability-wcnsswlanwrite-cve-2016-5342 Broken Link