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CVE-2016-5343

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5343 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the QDSP6v2 Voice Service driver (voice_svc.c) of the Linux kernel 3.x, specifically affecting Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely trigger a denial of service through memory corruption, with potential for further unspecified impact. Despite its critical CVSS score of 9.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

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

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0330 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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/2016-10-01.html
PatchVendor Advisory
source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
codeaurora.org / multiple-memory-corruption-issues-write-operation-qdsp6v2-voice-service-driver-cve-2016-5343
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/93330
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry