CVE-2016-8397: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An information disclosure vulnerability in the NVIDIA video driver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to access sensitive data without explicit user permission. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10. Android ID: A-31385953. References: N-CVE-2016-8397.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 3.10 only

Published 2017-01-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.