CVE-2016-6692 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2016-6692?

CVE-2016-6692 is a critical vulnerability in Google Android, published on 10 Oct 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6692?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-6692?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6692 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-6692 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6692 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ww8j-fmc9-8j4h.