CVE-2016-5861

high

Published 2017-08-16 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

In a display driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a variable controlled by userspace is used to calculate offsets and sizes for copy operations, which could result in heap overflow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.