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CVE-2016-5863
In an ioctl handler in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, several sanity checks are missing…
High7.8EPSS 0.56%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- qualcomm
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By qualcomm
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.56% · top 53% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Improper Validation of Array Index in USB
- CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs
Affected products
Qualcomm, Inc. · All Qualcomm products
- affected Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android
References (3)
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=daf0acd54a6a80de227baef9a06285e4aa5f8c93 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 99465 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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