CVE-2016-3850 — Integer overflow in app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted header field in a boot image, aka Android internal bug 27917291 and Qualcomm internal bug CR945164

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Integer overflow in app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted header field in a boot image, aka Android internal bug 27917291 and Qualcomm internal bug CR945164

Published Aug 5, 2016

7.3

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.20%

Description

Integer overflow in app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted header field in a boot image, aka Android internal bug 27917291 and Qualcomm internal bug CR945164.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.20% 0.00203

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00203

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.20% (0.00203)	9.29th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.20% (0.00203)	10.27th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.02% (0.00019)	2.81th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.05% (0.00052)	22.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 13, 2024	0.05% (0.00052)	20.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.05% (0.00052)	18.73th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92236
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=030371d45a9dcda4d0cc3c76647e753a1cc1b782
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92236		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=030371d45a9dcda4d0cc3c76647e753a1cc1b782		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Aug 5, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Mar 30, 2016

Link CVE-2016-3850

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3850

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-3850