CVE-2016-6696

critical
Published 2016-10-10 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=c3c9341bfdf93606983f893a086cb33a487306e5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.