CVE-2016-0844: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Qualcomm RF driver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly restrict access to socket ioctl calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 26324307.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 2016-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.