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Google Android Vulnerability: CVE-2016-0831

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Google Android Vulnerability: CVE-2016-0831

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/18/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The getDeviceIdForPhone function in internal/telephony/PhoneSubInfoController.java in Telephony in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H and 6.x before 2016-03-01 does not check for the READ_PHONE_STATE permission, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka internal bug 25778215.

Solution(s)

  • google-android-upgrade-latest

References

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