CVE-2016-2409

Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 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: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

A Texas Instruments (TI) haptic kernel driver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages control over a service that can call this driver, aka internal bug 25981545.

Affected products

Android: 6.0, 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html

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