CVE-2016-3856

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: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

netd in Android before 2016-08-05 mishandles tethering and stdio streams, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application, aka Qualcomm internal bug CR959631.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92256
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BF64.1.2.1&id=cc2853e6cec8ca2cf92430ad9a83358b131fc417
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BR.1&id=568ef402f6d5a7a50c126aafc78c4edf59abba1c
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92256
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BF64.1.2.1&id=cc2853e6cec8ca2cf92430ad9a83358b131fc417
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/system/netd/commit/?h=LA.BR.1&id=568ef402f6d5a7a50c126aafc78c4edf59abba1c

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