CVE-2016-0844

Publication date 18 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The Qualcomm RF driver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly restrict access to socket ioctl calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26324307.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
android	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

The fix appears to be strictly SELinux policy, thus I'm marking it "not-affected" here

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.4 · High

Base metrics

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

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.4 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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