CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-3858

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Buffer overflow in Qualcomm drivers 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.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges in the system, potentially leading to serious data security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Android to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor applications installed on devices.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS