CVE-2016-5863

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Qualcomm, Inc.	All Qualcomm products	Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99465Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=daf0acd54a6a80de227baef9a06285e4aa5f8c93Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99465Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=daf0acd54a6a80de227baef9a06285e4aa5f8c93Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 16, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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