CVE-2016-5867 Denial of service in All Qualcomm products

What is CVE-2016-5867?

CVE-2016-5867 is a high-severity denial of service 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 a sound driver in Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android, some variables are from userspace and values can be chosen that could result in stack overflow.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5867?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5867?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5867 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-5867 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5867 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-43mp-m7qp-jhq5.