CVE-2016-0831

Publication date 12 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

The getDeviceIdForPhone function in internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java in Telephony in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 does not check for the READ_PHONE_STATE permission, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25778215.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
android 18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
17.04 zesty
Fixed 20160307-0742-0ubuntu3
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 20160307-0742-0ubuntu3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 20160307-0742-0ubuntu3
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

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Package Patch details
android

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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