CVE-2016-3748

Publication date 11 July 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The sockets subsystem in Android 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows attackers to bypass intended system-call restrictions via a crafted application that makes an ioctl call, aka internal bug 28171804.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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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

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The SELinux confinement policy is not used in Ubuntu Touch

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
android	Upstream: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sepolicy/+/556bb0f55324e8839d7b735a0de9bc31028e839e

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