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CVE-2016-5863

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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 an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, several sanity checks are missing which can lead to out-of-bounds accesses.

Affected products

• Android: all versions

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99465
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=daf0acd54a6a80de227baef9a06285e4aa5f8c93
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99465
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=daf0acd54a6a80de227baef9a06285e4aa5f8c93

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