CVE-2016-2416

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% 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

libs/gui/BufferQueueConsumer.cpp in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not check for the android.permission.DUMP permission, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information, and consequently bypass an unspecified protection mechanism, via a dump request, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 27046057.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+16)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/85d253fab5e2c01bd90990667c6de25c282fc5cd
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/a40b30f5c43726120bfe69d41ff5aeb31fe1d02a
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/85d253fab5e2c01bd90990667c6de25c282fc5cd
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/a40b30f5c43726120bfe69d41ff5aeb31fe1d02a

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