CVE-2016-3858

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in drivers/soc/qcom/subsystem_restart.c in the Qualcomm subsystem driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that provides a long string, aka Android internal bug 28675151 and Qualcomm internal bug CR1022641.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92873
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=0c148b9a9028c566eac680f19e5d664b483cdee3
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92873
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=0c148b9a9028c566eac680f19e5d664b483cdee3

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