Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 25, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-6698

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability in Qualcomm components including the GPU driver, power driver, SMSM Point-to-Point driver, and sound driver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Android ID: A-30741851. References: Qualcomm QC-CR#1058826.

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Affected products

Google/Android3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=7.0
- (no CPE)range: < 2016-11-05
- (no CPE)range: Kernel-3.10
Qualcomm/GPU driverllm-fuzzy
Range: < 2016-11-05
Qualcomm/sound driverllm-fuzzy
Range: < 2016-11-05
Qualcomm/power driverllm-fuzzy
Range: < 2016-11-05
Qualcomm/SMSM Point-to-Point driverllm-fuzzy
Range: < 2016-11-05

Patches

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94139nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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