CVE-2016-5343 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5343?

CVE-2016-5343 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 10 Oct 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

drivers/soc/qcom/qdsp6v2/voice_svc.c in the QDSP6v2 Voice Service 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 (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a write request, as demonstrated by a voice_svc_send_req buffer overflow.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5343?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5343?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5343 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-2016-5343 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5343 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-6j85-845q-5hrf.