CVE-2016-0831

Publication date 12 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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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

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
android	Upstream: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/telephony/+/79eecef63f3ea99688333c19e22813f54d4a31b1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N