CVE-2016-5346

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-01-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

An Information Disclosure vulnerability exists in the Google Pixel/Pixel SL Qualcomm Avtimer Driver due to a NULL pointer dereference when processing an accept system call by the user process on AF_MSM_IPC sockets, which could let a local malicious user obtain sensitive information (Android Bug ID A-32551280).

Affected products

Android: before 7.0 — fixed in 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Android 7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97371
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201
https://github.com/ele7enxxh/poc-exp/tree/master/CVE-2016-5346
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=6298a474322fb2182f795a622b2faa64abfd8474
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97371
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201
https://github.com/ele7enxxh/poc-exp/tree/master/CVE-2016-5346
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01.html
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la//kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=6298a474322fb2182f795a622b2faa64abfd8474

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