PT-2017-2748 · Qualcomm · Qualcomm Sound Driver

Published 2017-02-15 · Updated 2017-08-18 · CVE-2016-5859

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 Qualcomm sound driver versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient access control in the sound driver of Qualcomm products for Android, which can be exploited by a remote attacker. If a function is called with a very large length, it may cause an integer overflow followed by a buffer overflow.

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:2017-01991

CVE-2016-5859

Affected Products

Qualcomm Sound Driver

References · 5

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=97fdb441a9fb330a76245e473bc1a2155c809ebe · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5859 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01991 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98175 · Note