CVE-2016-3762

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

The sockets subsystem in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that uses (1) the AF_MSM_IPC socket class or (2) another socket class that is unrecognized by SELinux, aka internal bug 28612709.

The sockets subsystem in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that uses (1) the AF_MSM_IPC socket class or (2) another socket class that is unrecognized by SELinux, aka internal bug 28612709.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Google Android

First reported 8 years ago

2016-07-11 02:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-07-12 14:25:00

Affected Software

Google Android Operating System 5.0

5.0

Google Android 5.0.1

5.0.1

Google Android 5.1

5.1

Google Android 5.1.0

5.1.0

Google Android 6.0

6.0

Google Android 6.0.1

6.0.1

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