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CVE-2016-0844

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Qualcomm RF driver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly restrict access to socket ioctl calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26324307.

Affected products

• Android: 6.0, 6.0.1

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/57531cacb40682be4b1189c721fd1e7f25bf3786
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/57531cacb40682be4b1189c721fd1e7f25bf3786

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