Privilege Escalation via Crafted Application in Android Sockets Subsystem

CVE-2016-3762 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The sockets subsystem in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-07-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that uses (1) the AF_MSM_IPC socket class or (2) another socket class that is unrecognized by SELinux, aka internal bug 28612709.

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