CVE-2016-5864

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% 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 audio driver function in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, some parameters are from userspace, and if they are set to a large value, integer overflow is possible followed by buffer overflow. In another function, a missing check for a lower bound may result in an out of bounds memory access.

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=cbc21ceb69cb7bca0643423a7ca982abce3ce50a
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=cbc21ceb69cb7bca0643423a7ca982abce3ce50a

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