CVE-2016-6695

Critical

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

Summary

A vulnerability in the 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 crafted visualizer data length.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to service outages, negatively impacting users and the organization's reputation.

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 a crafted visualizer data length, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 1033540.