CVE-2016-3898 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2016-3898

Telephony in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x...

Vulnerability Description

Telephony in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of locked-screen 911 TTY functionality) via a crafted application that modifies the TTY mode by broadcasting an intent, aka internal bug 29832693.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

android
Vulnerable Versions:
5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.1.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 11th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.