CVSS 3.0
7.0 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-5853
In an audio driver in all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, when a sanity check encounters a length value not in the correct range, an error message is printed, but code execution continues in the same way as for a correct length value.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 58% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-264
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- google:android
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98178
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/?id=a8f3b894de319718aecfc2ce9c691514696805be
- https://www.codeaurora.org/detection-error-condition-without-proper-action-msmds2dapparamvisualizercontrolget-cve-2016-5853
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98178