CVE-2016-2061

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Integer signedness error in the MSM V4L2 video 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 gain privileges or cause a denial of service (array overflow and memory corruption) via a crafted application that triggers an msm_isp_axi_create_stream call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: from 3.0 through 3.19.8

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/id=79db14ca9f791a14be9376a0340ad3b9b9a4d603
https://www.codeaurora.org/array-overflow-msm-v4l2-video-driver-allows-kernel-memory-corruption-cve-2016-2061
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/id=79db14ca9f791a14be9376a0340ad3b9b9a4d603
https://www.codeaurora.org/array-overflow-msm-v4l2-video-driver-allows-kernel-memory-corruption-cve-2016-2061

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