Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Aug 16, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5855

Description

In a driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a user-supplied buffer is casted to a structure without checking if the source buffer is large enough.

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Affected products

Google/Android
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Qualcomm/Android for MSMllm-fuzzy
Qualcomm/Firefox OS for MSMllm-fuzzy
Qualcomm/QRD Androidllm-fuzzy
Qualcomm, Inc./All Qualcomm productsv5
Range: Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android

Patches

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01nvdPatchVendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-4.4/commit/nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98220nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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