CVE-2016-5853 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.0