PT-2016-3159 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox Os+1

Published 2016-12-22 · Updated 2017-08-20 · CVE-2016-5863

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Qualcomm products with Android for MSM (affected versions not specified) Qualcomm products with Firefox OS for MSM (affected versions not specified) Qualcomm products with QRD Android (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to missing sanity checks in an ioctl handler, which can lead to out-of-bounds accesses. This can potentially allow a remote attacker to access memory beyond boundaries due to the lack of several sanity checks.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

BDU:2017-01987

CVE-2016-5863

Affected Products

Android

Firefox Os

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5863 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5863 · Security Note
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5863 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01987 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=daf0acd54a6a80de227baef9a06285e4aa5f8c93 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5863 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/99465 · Note