CVE-2016-3744

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the create_pbuf function in btif/src/btif_hh.c in Bluetooth 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 2016-07-01 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted pairing operation, aka internal bug 27930580.

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/2016-07-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/514139f4b40cbb035bb92f3e24d5a389d75db9e6
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/bt/+/514139f4b40cbb035bb92f3e24d5a389d75db9e6

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