CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-3856

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

netd in Android before 2016-08-05 mishandles tethering and stdio streams, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to attacks leading to denial of service, potentially disrupting Android-based systems and services.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Android to a version after 2016-08-05 to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor applications using tethering.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS