CVE-2016-3939

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: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_debug.c in the Qualcomm video driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 30874196 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1001224.

Affected products

Android: 7.0

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93336
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93336

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