Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2016-6916

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-6916 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the NVIDIA video driver affecting Android, Shield TV, Shield Tablet, and Shield Tablet TK1 devices. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a buffer overflow, leading to a denial of service and system crash. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires local access and low attack complexity, potentially resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:shield_tablet_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:shield_tablet_tk1_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:shield_tv_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:video_driver:-:*:*:*:*:android:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 16,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

nvidia.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/4561
nvidia.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/4276/~/security-bulletin%3A-nvidia-shield-contains-multiple-vulnerabilities-in
Vendor Advisory
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2016-12-01
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/94667
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry