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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2016-8405 json

An information disclosure vulnerability in kernel components including the ION subsystem, Binder, USB driver and networking subsystem could…

published 2017-01-12 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9253

cvss
4.7
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An information disclosure vulnerability in kernel components including the ION subsystem, Binder, USB driver and networking subsystem could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-31651010.

Patch / fix

  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.9.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8405

  • linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 3.13.0-126.175
  • linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-67.88
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1009.18
  • linux-hwe Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.10.0-32.36~16.04.1
  • linux-raspi2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1048.55
  • linux-lts-xenial Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4.4.0-67.88~14.04.1
  • linux-snapdragon Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4.4.0-1051.55

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8405

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.33.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.33.1
  • kernel-rt_trace SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.33.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.33.1
  • kernel-ec2 SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.43.1
  • kernel-pae SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.43.1
  • kernel-xen SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.43.1
  • kernel-syms SLES 11 SP3-LTSS, SLE Point of Sale 11 SP3 3.0.101-0.47.106.43.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2637-1SUSE-SU-2018:2366-1SUSE-SU-2018:2332-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-8405 updated cvss 4.7

kernel: Copying color maps to userspace vulnerable to heap-buffer overflow

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Google Inc. Android

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.