CVE-2016-3854

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

drivers/media/video/msm/msm_mctl_buf.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 does not validate the image mode, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR897326.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92256
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?h=LA.AF.1.2.1_rb1.5&id=cc96def76dfd18fba88575065b29f2ae9191fafa
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92256
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?h=LA.AF.1.2.1_rb1.5&id=cc96def76dfd18fba88575065b29f2ae9191fafa

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