CVE-2016-5862: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When a control related to codec is issued from userspace in all Qualcomm products with Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, or QRD Android, the type casting is done to the container structure instead of the codec's individual structure, resulting in a device restart after kernel crash occurs.

Affected products

• Google Android: any version

Published 2017-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.