CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-3940

Published: Oct 10, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

9.3 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3940
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

The Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android before 2016-10-05 on Nexus 6P and Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30141991.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Android	Google	*	7.0 (including)

References

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