CVE-2016-5862

EPSS 0.5%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

16 Aug 2017Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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

Qualcomm, Inc. · All Qualcomm products

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References

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