CVE-2016-0801

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 33.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Broadcom Wi-Fi driver in the kernel in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G, and 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted wireless control message packets, aka internal bug 25662029.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: through 9.2.1
macOS: through 10.11.3
Apple tvOS: through 9.1
Apple watchOS: through 2.1
Android: 4.4.4, 5.0, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-02-01.html
http://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/alert/ARUBA-PSA-2016-004.txt
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035353
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00015.html
https://support.apple.com/HT206166
https://support.apple.com/HT206167
https://support.apple.com/HT206168
https://support.apple.com/HT206169

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