CVE-2016-6690: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.0

Published 2016-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.