High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 7, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-0809

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the wifi_cleanup function in bcmdhd/wifi_hal/wifi_hal.cpp in Wi-Fi in Android 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to gain privileges by leveraging access to the local physical environment during execution of a crafted application, aka internal bug 25753768.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-02-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/broadcom/wlan/+/2c5a4fac8bc8198f6a2635ede776f8de40a0c3e1nvd

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