CVE-2016-6681

MEDIUM

Google Android < 7.0 - Information Disclosure

Title source: rule

Description

drivers/misc/qcom/qdsp6v2/audio_utils.c in a Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices does not initialize certain data structures, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30152182 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1049521.

References (3)

[Vendor Advisory] http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93309

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=0950fbd39ff189497f1b6115825c210e3eeaf395

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0012

EPSS Percentile 31.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Affected Products (2)

google/android < 7.0

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Oct 10, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026