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CVE-2016-5862
When a control related to codec is issued from userspace in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD…
High7.0EPSS 0.53%
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- qualcomm
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.0 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.0.
Weakness
- Untrusted Pointer Dereference in Audio
- CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs
Affected products
Qualcomm, Inc. · All Qualcomm products
- affected Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android
References (3)
- 98194 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=4199451e83729a3add781eeafaee32994ff65b04 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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