CVE-2015-8956: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The rfcomm_sock_bind function in net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via vectors involving a bind system call on a Bluetooth RFCOMM socket.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 7.0
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.1.33

Published 2016-10-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.