CVE-2016-3874: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Google Android: up to and including 7.0

Published 2016-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.