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CVE-2016-2068

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-2068 describes an integer overflow and subsequent buffer overflow or over-read vulnerability in the Qualcomm MSM QDSP6 audio driver for Linux kernel 3.x, affecting Google Android and Linux kernel products. This flaw allows a crafted application to achieve privilege escalation or a denial of service through AUDIO_EFFECTS_WRITE or AUDIO_EFFECTS_READ operations. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) but can lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0, <= 3.19.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0074 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

googlepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
PatchVendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
us.codeaurora.org / cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
us.codeaurora.org / cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
codeaurora.org / multiple-vulnerabilities-msm-qdsp6-audio-driver-allow-kernel-memory-corruption-cve-2016-2068-0
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