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CVE-2016-5858

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

In an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, if a user supplies a value too large, then an out-of-bounds read occurs.

Affected products

• Android: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98215
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=3154eb1d263b9c3eab2c9fa8ebe498390bf5d711
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=afc5bea71bc8f251dad1104568383019f4923af6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98215
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=3154eb1d263b9c3eab2c9fa8ebe498390bf5d711
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=afc5bea71bc8f251dad1104568383019f4923af6

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