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CVE-2016-5861

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 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-264

Description

In a display driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a variable controlled by userspace is used to calculate offsets and sizes for copy operations, which could result in heap overflow.

Affected products

• Android: all versions

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-06-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=cf3c97b8b6165f13810e530068fbf94b07f1f77d
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-06-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=cf3c97b8b6165f13810e530068fbf94b07f1f77d

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