PT-2016-7042

CVE-2016-6681

Published

2016-10-10

Updated

2016-12-06

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2016-10-05

Description The issue is related to the Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver in Android, where certain data structures are not properly initialized in the audio utils.c file. This allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by using a crafted application.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-10-05, update to a version released on or after 2016-10-05 to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Jianqiang Zhao

Jianqiangzhao

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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