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CVE-2016-3748

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 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-264

Description

The sockets subsystem in Android 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows attackers to bypass intended system-call restrictions via a crafted application that makes an ioctl call, aka internal bug 28171804.

Affected products

• Android: 6.0, 6.0.1

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/556bb0f55324e8839d7b735a0de9bc31028e839e
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/556bb0f55324e8839d7b735a0de9bc31028e839e

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