CVE-2016-5868
high
CVSS v3
7.0
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.0
Description
drivers/net/ethernet/msm/rndis_ipa.c in the Qualcomm networking driver in Android allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted application compromising a privileged process.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
69%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98197
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=fbb765a3f813f5cc85ddab21487fd65f24bf6a8c
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98197
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=fbb765a3f813f5cc85ddab21487fd65f24bf6a8c
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.