CVE-2016-0809 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-0809?

CVE-2016-0809 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Android, published on 7 Feb 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-0809?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-0809?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-0809 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-0809 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-0809 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3pv3-x8f8-39pc, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0809.