PT-2016-3162 · Qualcomm+2 · Qualcomm Products+2

Published 2016-12-27 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2016-5853

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.6

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions (affected versions not specified) Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient access control in an audio driver of the Android operating system, specifically in CAF builds. When a sanity check encounters a length value outside the correct range, it prints an error message but continues code execution as if the length value were correct. This could potentially allow a remote attacker to exploit the issue.

Recommendations For Android versions, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability. For Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, 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:2017-01992

CVE-2016-5853

Affected Products

Android

Linux Kernel

Qualcomm Products

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5853 · Security Note
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01992 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=a8f3b894de319718aecfc2ce9c691514696805be · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98178 · Note
• https://codeaurora.org/detection-error-condition-without-proper-action-msmds2dapparamvisualizercontrolget-cve-2016-5853 · Note