CVE-2016-6694 is a critical denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Qualcomm QDSP6v2 driver in Android devices prior to the 2016-10-05 security update. This flaw, tracked internally as CR 1033525, allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause a system crash or potentially other unspecified impacts by sending specially crafted parameter data. With a CVSSv3 score of 9.8, it represents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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.