CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-3939

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The Qualcomm video driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, and Android One devices has a vulnerability that allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to unauthorized access to the system, posing a serious threat to user data security.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update devices to the latest version of Android to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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