CVE-2016-0820

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The MediaTek Wi-Fi kernel driver in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-03-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26267358.

Affected products

Android: 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84257
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84257

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