CVE-2016-5342

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-787

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92693Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=579e796cb089324c55e0e689a180575ba81b23d9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.codeaurora.org/buffer-overflow-vulnerability-wcnsswlanwrite-cve-2016-5342Broken Link
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92693Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=579e796cb089324c55e0e689a180575ba81b23d9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://www.codeaurora.org/buffer-overflow-vulnerability-wcnsswlanwrite-cve-2016-5342Broken Link

Timeline

Published: Aug 30, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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