CVE-2016-5861

high
Published 2017-08-16 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
8.3
VIR risk
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@qualcomm.com — https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=cf3c97b8b6165f13810e530068fbf94b07f1f77d

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@qualcomm.com — https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-06-01

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.