CVE-2016-5342

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Heap-based buffer overflow in the wcnss_wlan_write function in drivers/net/wireless/wcnss/wcnss_wlan.c in the wcnss_wlan device driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by writing to /dev/wcnss_wlan with an unexpected amount of data.

Desbordamiento de búfer basado en memoria dinámica en la función wcnss_wlan_write en drivers/net/wireless/wcnss/wcnss_wlan.c en el controlador de dispositivo wcnss_wlan para el kernel 3.x de Linux, según se utiliza en contribuciones Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android para dispositivos MSM y otros productos, permite a atacantes provocar una denegación de servicio o posiblemente tener otro impacto no especificado escribiendo a /dev/wcnss_wlan con una cantidad de datos inesperada.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2016-06-09 CVE Reserved
2016-08-30 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92693	Third Party Advisory
https://www.codeaurora.org/buffer-overflow-vulnerability-wcnsswlanwrite-cve-2016-5342	Broken Link

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html	2020-08-04
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=579e796cb089324c55e0e689a180575ba81b23d9	2020-08-04

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Google Search vendor "Google"		Android Search vendor "Google" for product "Android"				<= 7.0 Search vendor "Google" for product "Android" and version " <= 7.0"		-		Affected
Linux Search vendor "Linux"		Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel"				>= 3.0 <= 3.19.8 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 3.0 <= 3.19.8"		-		Affected