CVE-2016-6682 Information disclosure in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers can obtain sensitive information via a crafted application due to uninitialized data structures in the Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2016-6682?

CVE-2016-6682 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 Oct 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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 30152501 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1049615.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6682?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6682?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6682 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-6682 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6682 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f3h7-q5hm-q4x2.

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