Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Video Driver on Nexus and Android One Devices

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Video Driver on Nexus and Android One Devices

CVE-2016-3939 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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