CVE-2016-6675

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
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: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Off-by-one error in CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_hostapd.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) via a crafted application that makes a linkspeed ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 30873776 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1000861.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93328
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=1353fa0bd0c78427f3ae7d9bde7daeb75bd01d09
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93328
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=1353fa0bd0c78427f3ae7d9bde7daeb75bd01d09

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