CVE-2016-6694

Critical

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

Summary

A vulnerability in the Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver in Android before October 5, 2016, allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted parameter data.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to service interruptions, affecting system availability and potentially being exploited for further attacks.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to a version after October 5, 2016, 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 crafted parameter data, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 1033525.