CVE-2015-8951 — Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30142668 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 948902

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Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30142668 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 948902

Published Oct 10, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.50%

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm sound driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30142668 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 948902.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.50% 0.00498

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00498

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.50% (0.00498)	40.45th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.50% (0.00498)	38.55th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.06% (0.00061)	16.41th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	39.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 26, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	38.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00089)	36.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00954)	36.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 2, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	34.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	32.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	16.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93317
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=ccff36b07bfc49efc77b9f1b55ed2bf0900b1d5b
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93317		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=ccff36b07bfc49efc77b9f1b55ed2bf0900b1d5b		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Oct 10, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 15, 2016

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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