What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2067

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl.c in the MSM graphics driver (aka GPU driver) for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, mishandles the KGSL_MEMFLAGS_GPUREADONLY flag, which allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging accidental read-write mappings, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR988993.

Affected products

• Android: through 6.0.1
• Linux kernel: from 3.0 through 3.19.8

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=410cfa95f0a1cf58819cbfbd896f9aa45b004ac0
• https://www.codeaurora.org/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-graphics-driver-cve-2016-2067
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=410cfa95f0a1cf58819cbfbd896f9aa45b004ac0
• https://www.codeaurora.org/privilege-escalation-vulnerability-graphics-driver-cve-2016-2067

Get alerted when CVE-2016-2067 or the next vulnerability affects your stack