CVE-2016-3901

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: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in drivers/crypto/msm/qcedev.c in the Qualcomm cryptographic engine driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 29999161 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1046434.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93327
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=5f69ccf3b011c1d14a1b1b00dbaacf74307c9132
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93327
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=5f69ccf3b011c1d14a1b1b00dbaacf74307c9132

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