CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5862

Published: Aug 16, 2017 | Modified: Aug 20, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.6 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

When a control related to codec is issued from userspace in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, the type casting is done to the container structure instead of the codecs individual structure, resulting in a device restart after kernel crash occurs.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Android Google * *

References