CVE-2016-2409 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2409?

CVE-2016-2409 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 18 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Texas Instruments (TI) haptic kernel driver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that leverages control over a service that can call this driver, aka internal bug 25981545.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2409?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2409?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2409 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-2409 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2409 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-cm89-cm34-8gww.