CVE-2016-3893: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The wcdcal_hwdep_ioctl_shared function in sound/soc/codecs/wcdcal-hwdep.c in the Qualcomm sound codec in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 6P devices does not properly copy firmware data, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29512527 and Qualcomm internal bug CR856400.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.0

Published 2016-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.