Bypassing SAFE_BOOT_DISALLOWED Protection Mechanism via ADB Tool

CVE-2016-3876 · HIGH Severity

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

providers/settings/SettingsProvider.java in Android 6.x before 2016-09-01 and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the SAFE_BOOT_DISALLOWED protection mechanism and boot to safe mode via the Android Debug Bridge (adb) tool, aka internal bug 29900345.

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