CVE-2016-5342 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5342?

CVE-2016-5342 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 30 Aug 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the wcnss_wlan_write function in drivers/net/wireless/wcnss/wcnss_wlan.c in the wcnss_wlan device driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to /dev/wcnss_wlan with an unexpected amount of data.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5342?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Android, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5342?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5342 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-5342 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r2gf-cg95-782g.