High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-3874
CVE-2016-3874
Description
CORE/HDD/src/wlan_hdd_wext.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-09-05 on Nexus 5X devices does not properly validate the arguments array, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends a WE_UNIT_TEST_CMD command, aka Android internal bug 29944562 and Qualcomm internal bug CR997797.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
5- source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/qcacld-2.0/commit/nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/92882nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763nvd
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