CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5870
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-04-04
- 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])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The msm_ipc_router_close function in net/ipc_router/ipc_router_socket.c in the ipc_router component for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allow attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering failure of an accept system call for an AF_MSM_IPC socket.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.0.0 <= 3.19.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97414 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=71fe5361cbef34e2d606b79e8936a910a3e95566 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.codeaurora.org/null-pointer-dereference-when-processing-accept-system-call-user-process-afmsmipc-sockets-cve-2016 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97414 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=71fe5361cbef34e2d606b79e8936a910a3e95566 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.codeaurora.org/null-pointer-dereference-when-processing-accept-system-call-user-process-afmsmipc-sockets-cve-2016 Broken Link