CVE-2016-3885

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

debuggerd/debuggerd.cpp in Debuggerd in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 mishandles the interaction between PTRACE_ATTACH operations and thread exits, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 29555636.

Affected products

Android: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.1.0, 6.0, 6.0.1 (+1)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92876
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/d7603583f90c2bc6074a4ee2886bd28082d7c65b
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92876
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/d7603583f90c2bc6074a4ee2886bd28082d7c65b

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