CVE-2009-3698

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

An unspecified function in the Dalvik API in Android 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system process restart) via a crafted application, possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-2656.

Affected products

Android: through 1.5

References

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cf4550c3198d6b3d92cdc52707fe70d7cc0caa9f
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022986
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-014.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506948/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36590
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53654
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cf4550c3198d6b3d92cdc52707fe70d7cc0caa9f
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022986
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-014.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506948/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36590
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53654

Get alerted when CVE-2009-3698 or the next vulnerability affects your stack