Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android Sound Driver on Nexus Devices

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android Sound Driver on Nexus Devices

CVE-2016-6690 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The sound driver in the kernel in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Nexus Player devices allows attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted application, aka internal bug 28838221.

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