CVE-2016-6692
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_pp.c in the Qualcomm MDSS driver in Android before 2016-10-05 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR 1004933.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=0f0e7047d39f9fb3a1a7f389918ff79cdb4a50b3
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=0f0e7047d39f9fb3a1a7f389918ff79cdb4a50b3
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.