CVE-2016-3898

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: 2016-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

Telephony 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 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of locked-screen 911 TTY functionality) via a crafted application that modifies the TTY mode by broadcasting an intent, aka internal bug 29832693.

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://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/services/Telephony/+/d1d248d10cf03498efb7041f1a8c9c467482a19d
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/services/Telephony/+/d1d248d10cf03498efb7041f1a8c9c467482a19d

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