CVE-2016-3939 — 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

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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

Published Oct 10, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.44%

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.44% 0.00439

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

EPSS probability 0.00439

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	0.44% (0.00439)	35.81th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.44% (0.00439)	34.75th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.04% (0.00044)	10.73th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.05% (0.00054)	24.05th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 20, 2024	0.05% (0.00054)	22.14th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.05% (0.00054)	20.10th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93336
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

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

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-2016-3939

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2016-3939

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2016-3939