CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2420
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
rootdir/init.rc in Android 4.x before 4.4.4 does not ensure that the /data/tombstones directory exists for the Debuggerd component, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26403620.
Affected configurations
• google android 4.0
• google android 4.0.1
• google android 4.0.2
• google android 4.0.3
• google android 4.0.4
• google android 4.1
• google android 4.1.2
• google android 4.2
• google android 4.2.1
• google android 4.2.2
• google android 4.3
• google android 4.3.1
• google android 4.4
• google android 4.4.1
• google android 4.4.2
• google android 4.4.3
• google android 5.0
• google android 5.0.1
• google android 5.1
• google android 5.1.0
• google android 6.0
• google android 6.0.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html Vendor Advisory
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/669ecc2f5e80ff924fa20ce7445354a7c5bcfd98 android.googlesource.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/81df1cc77722000f8d0025c1ab00ced123aa573c android.googlesource.com
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html Vendor Advisory
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/669ecc2f5e80ff924fa20ce7445354a7c5bcfd98 android.googlesource.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/81df1cc77722000f8d0025c1ab00ced123aa573c android.googlesource.com