CVE-2016-3762

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that uses (1) the AF_MSM_IPC socket class or (2) another socket class that is unrecognized by SELinux, aka internal bug 28612709.

Affected products

Android: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.1.0, 6.0, 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/abf0663ed884af7bc880a05e9529e6671eb58f39
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/abf0663ed884af7bc880a05e9529e6671eb58f39

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