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CVE-2016-3838

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Android 6.x before 2016-08-01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of locked-screen 911 functionality) via a crafted application that uses the app-pinning feature, aka internal bug 28761672.

Affected products

• Android: 6.0, 6.0.1

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92244
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/468651c86a8adb7aa56c708d2348e99022088af3
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92244
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/468651c86a8adb7aa56c708d2348e99022088af3

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