CVE-2016-6696

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 large negative value for the data length.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to system outages, affecting the availability of services within the organization. There is also a risk of unspecified impacts that could affect system integrity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to a version after 2016-10-05 to mitigate this vulnerability. Additionally, systems should be monitored for unauthorized access attempts.

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 large negative value for the data length, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 1041130.