CVE-2016-6696

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% 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-20

Description

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-ds2-dap-config.c in a Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver in Android before 2016-10-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large negative value for the data length, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 1041130.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=c3c9341bfdf93606983f893a086cb33a487306e5
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=c3c9341bfdf93606983f893a086cb33a487306e5

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