CVE-2016-3757 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3757?

CVE-2016-3757 is a high-severity 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

The print_maps function in toolbox/lsof.c 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 user-assisted attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that attempts to list a long name of a memory-mapped file, aka internal bug 28175237. NOTE: print_maps is not related to the Vic Abell lsof product.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3757?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3757?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3757 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2016-3757 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3757 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-jm4q-mm58-q7p6, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3757.