CVE-2016-5853 Missing authorization in All Qualcomm products
A missing authorization check in the Qualcomm audio driver allows attackers to bypass length validation, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-5853?
CVE-2016-5853 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Google Android, published on 16 Aug 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
In an audio driver in all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, when a sanity check encounters a length value not in the correct range, an error message is printed, but code execution continues in the same way as for a correct length value.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5853?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2016-5853?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5853 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2016-5853 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5853 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2948-wgj8-jg4r.