CVE-2016-3860

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/audio_calibration.c in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29323142 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1038127.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93320
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/?id=528976f54be246ec93a71ac53aa4faf3e3791c48
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93320
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/?id=528976f54be246ec93a71ac53aa4faf3e3791c48

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