CVE-2016-3938 — 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

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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

Published Oct 10, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.54%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.54% 0.00539

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

EPSS probability 0.00539

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	0.54% (0.00539)	43.27th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.54% (0.00539)	40.86th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.07% (0.00073)	19.69th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	39.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 26, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	38.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00089)	36.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00954)	36.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 2, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	34.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	32.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	16.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93336
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=467c81f9736b1ebc8d4ba70f9221bba02425ca10
x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93336		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=467c81f9736b1ebc8d4ba70f9221bba02425ca10		x_refsource_CONFIRMMitigationPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Oct 10, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Mar 30, 2016

Link CVE-2016-3938

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3938

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-3938