CVE-2016-5862

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 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

When a control related to codec is issued from userspace in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, the type casting is done to the container structure instead of the codec's individual structure, resulting in a device restart after kernel crash occurs.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98194
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=4199451e83729a3add781eeafaee32994ff65b04
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98194
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=4199451e83729a3add781eeafaee32994ff65b04

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