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CVE-2016-2456

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The MediaTek Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-05-01 on Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 27275187.

Affected products

• Android: through 6.0.1

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html

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