High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published May 9, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-2456
CVE-2016-2456
Description
The MediaTek Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-05-01 on Android One devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 27275187.
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Affected products
5- Range: before 2016-05-01
- Range: before 2016-05-01
- osv-coords2 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-flo@3.4.0-5.23?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-mako@3.4.0-7.44?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial
>= 0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
- (no CPE)range: >= 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
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