CVE-2016-5855
In a driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a...
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
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.
- Record
CVE-2016-5855- CVSS 3.0
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 2.6 Low
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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.
- Record
CVE-2016-5855- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-6789 No score
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.
- Record
EUVD-2016-6789- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-x546-m6gw-qc7f
In a driver in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, a...
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.
- Record
GHSA-x546-m6gw-qc7f- CVSS 3.0
- 4.7 Medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-200
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2016-5855 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.7) in Google Android, published August 16, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.46%, the 40th percentile. No source names a fixed version.