What is CVE-2016-10420?

CVE-2016-10420 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9206, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-04-18.

How severe is CVE-2016-10420?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Qualcomm Mdm9206

CVE-2016-10420

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 600, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, and SDX20, while playing back a .flv clip which doesn't have an inbuilt seek table, a dynamic index table access is out of bounds and leads to crash.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.005 (41.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

product-security@qualcomm.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
product-security@qualcomm.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10420?: CVE-2016-10420 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Qualcomm Mdm9206, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-04-18.
How severe is CVE-2016-10420?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.