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CVE-2016-5856

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Drivers/soc/qcom/spcom.c in the Qualcomm SPCom driver in the Android kernel 2017-03-05 allows local users to gain privileges, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-5857.

Affected products

• Android: through 6.0.1
• Linux kernel: 4.3.6

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=0c0622914ba53cdcb6e79e85f64bfdf7762c0368
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=0c0622914ba53cdcb6e79e85f64bfdf7762c0368

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