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CVE-2016-2068

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

The MSM QDSP6 audio driver (aka sound 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 (integer overflow, and buffer overflow or buffer over-read) via a crafted application that performs a (1) AUDIO_EFFECTS_WRITE or (2) AUDIO_EFFECTS_READ operation, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR1006609.

Affected products

• Android: through 6.0.1
• Linux kernel: from 3.0 through 3.19.8

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=01ee86da5a0cd788f134e360e2be517ef52b6b00
• https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=9900650540c889f761d102202bc80306ae80ab83
• https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=2c04c0dab66013b7dfbe4d5a523c2c1d6b5b11d6
• https://www.codeaurora.org/multiple-vulnerabilities-msm-qdsp6-audio-driver-allow-kernel-memory-corruption-cve-2016-2068-0
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=01ee86da5a0cd788f134e360e2be517ef52b6b00
• https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=9900650540c889f761d102202bc80306ae80ab83
• https://us.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=2c04c0dab66013b7dfbe4d5a523c2c1d6b5b11d6
• https://www.codeaurora.org/multiple-vulnerabilities-msm-qdsp6-audio-driver-allow-kernel-memory-corruption-cve-2016-2068-0

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