CVE-2016-6693

Critical

Published: 10/10/2016(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

The Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver in Android before 2016-10-05 has a vulnerability that allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an invalid data length.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to system outages, affecting the availability of services within the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to a version after 2016-10-05 to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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 an invalid data length, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 1027585.