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CVE-2016-5859

• 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: 2017-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

In a sound driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, if a function is called with a very large length, an integer overflow could occur followed by a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Android: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98175
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=97fdb441a9fb330a76245e473bc1a2155c809ebe
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98175
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=97fdb441a9fb330a76245e473bc1a2155c809ebe

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