Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android Telephony (CVE-2016-xxxx)

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Android Telephony (CVE-2016-xxxx)

CVE-2016-3898 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Telephony in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of locked-screen 911 TTY functionality) via a crafted application that modifies the TTY mode by broadcasting an intent, aka internal bug 29832693.

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