CVE-2016-3856
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Published: August 6, 2016 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:46 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAndroid
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
netd in Android before 2016-08-05 mishandles tethering and stdio streams, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR959631.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BF64.1.2.1&id=cc2853e6cec8ca2cf92430ad9a83358b131fc417
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BR.1&id=568ef402f6d5a7a50c126aafc78c4edf59abba1c
References (4)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BF64.1.2.1&id=cc2853e6cec8ca2cf92430ad9a83358b131fc417x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch
Source: [email protected]
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BR.1&id=568ef402f6d5a7a50c126aafc78c4edf59abba1cQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-19
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