CVE-2016-5862 (GCVE-0-2016-5862)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-16 15:00
Modified
2024-09-16 23:36
Severity ?
CWE
  • Untrusted Pointer Dereference in Audio
Summary
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 codec's individual structure, resulting in a device restart after kernel crash occurs.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Qualcomm, Inc. All Qualcomm products Version: Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android
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