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CVE-2016-2416

Published: Apr 18, 2016

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

libs/gui/BufferQueueConsumer.cpp in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not check for the android.permission.DUMP permission, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information, and consequently bypass an unspecified protection mechanism, via a dump request, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 27046057.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/a40b30f5c43726120bfe69d41ff5aeb31fe1d02a

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/85d253fab5e2c01bd90990667c6de25c282fc5cd

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html

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