CVE-2016-6746: An information disclosure vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable...

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CVE-2016-6746 is a high-rated Android information disclosure issue in the NVIDIA GPU driver. A malicious local app could read data beyond its normal Android permissions, creating privacy and sensitive-data exposure risk on older unpatched Android devices. Exposure is most likely on legacy Android devices using the affected NVIDIA GPU driver and Kernel-3.18 builds with security patch levels before 2016-11-05. The bundle does not provide a complete device model list. Treat this as a legacy-device hygiene priority. It is not documented as actively exploited in the supplied sources, but affected devices can expose sensitive data to malicious apps and should be updated or removed from trusted use. Mitigation focus: Update affected Android devices to the 2016-11-05 security patch level or later.; Check OEM or NVIDIA guidance for device-specific patched builds.; Retire or isolate unsupported affected Android devices..

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Jun 13, 2026, 13:16 UTC (UTC+00:00)

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