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high 7.8

CVE-2016-5863 json

In an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, several sanity checks are missing wh…

published 2017-08-16 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6797

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, several sanity checks are missing which can lead to out-of-bounds accesses.

Patch / fix

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-95.142
  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-36.55
  • linux-raspi2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1021.27
  • linux-lts-xenial Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-36.55~14.04.1
  • linux-snapdragon Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1024.27

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5863

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • Qualcomm, Inc. All Qualcomm products

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.