CVE-2016-3858 — 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

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HIGH

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

Published Sep 11, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.53%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.53% 0.00530

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00530

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 1, 2026	0.53% (0.00530)	42.69th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.53% (0.00530)	40.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00067)	18.04th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.11% (0.00113)	46.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 2, 2024	0.11% (0.00113)	45.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.11% (0.00113)	43.12th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.02% (0.01018)	40.69th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	38.88th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	36.86th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.02% (0.01018)	19.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (4)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92873
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=0c148b9a9028c566eac680f19e5d664b483cdee3
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92873		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=0c148b9a9028c566eac680f19e5d664b483cdee3		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Sep 11, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Mar 30, 2016

Link CVE-2016-3858

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3858

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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