CVE-2016-3938

high

Description

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_overlay.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 30019716 and Qualcomm internal bug CR 1049232.

References

https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=467c81f9736b1ebc8d4ba70f9221bba02425ca10

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93336

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-10-10

Updated: 2026-05-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00073