CVE-2016-3744 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3744?

CVE-2016-3744 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Jul 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the create_pbuf function in btif/src/btif_hh.c in Bluetooth 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 2016-07-01 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a crafted pairing operation, aka internal bug 27930580.

Weakness: CWE-362, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3744?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3744?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3744 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-3744 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3744 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-795h-4349-x32v, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3744.