CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5862
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
When a control related to codec is issued from userspace in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, the type casting is done to the container structure instead of the codec's individual structure, resulting in a device restart after kernel crash occurs.
Affected configurations
• google android
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98194 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=4199451e83729a3add781eeafaee32994ff65b04 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98194 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=4199451e83729a3add781eeafaee32994ff65b04 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory