CVE-2016-3914
Description
Race condition in providers/telephony/MmsProvider.java in Telephony in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that modifies a database between two open operations, aka internal bug 30481342.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93300
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/TelephonyProvider/+/3a3a5d145d380deef2d5b7c3150864cd04be397f
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93300
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/providers/TelephonyProvider/+/3a3a5d145d380deef2d5b7c3150864cd04be397f
CWEs
CWE-362
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.