CVE-2016-5343 — drivers/soc/qcom/qdsp6v2/voice_svc.c in the QDSP6v2 Voice Service driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a write request, as demonstrated by a voice_svc_send_req buffer overflow

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CRITICAL

drivers/soc/qcom/qdsp6v2/voice_svc.c in the QDSP6v2 Voice Service driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a write request, as demonstrated by a voice_svc_send_req buffer overflow

Published Oct 10, 2016

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 3.30%

Description

drivers/soc/qcom/qdsp6v2/voice_svc.c in the QDSP6v2 Voice Service driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a write request, as demonstrated by a voice_svc_send_req buffer overflow.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.30% 0.03304

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

EPSS probability 0.03304

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 (12 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.30% (0.03304)	88.13th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.30% (0.03304)	86.90th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.83% (0.00831)	72.41th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	2.16% (0.02162)	73.80th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.83% (0.00831)	72.93th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.45% (0.00451)	75.95th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.45% (0.00451)	74.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.45% (0.00451)	71.18th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.02% (0.01018)	40.69th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	38.88th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	36.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	19.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-120

Classic Buffer Overflow

References (4)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=6927e2e0af4dcac357be86ba563c9ae12354bb08
x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.codeaurora.org/multiple-memory-corruption-issues-write-operation-qdsp6v2-voice-service-driver-cve-2016-5343
x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken Link

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=6927e2e0af4dcac357be86ba563c9ae12354bb08		x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.codeaurora.org/multiple-memory-corruption-issues-write-operation-qdsp6v2-voice-service-driver-cve-2016-5343		x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken Link

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 10, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jun 9, 2016

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-5343

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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