CVE-2016-2440: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libs/binder/IPCThreadState.cpp in Binder in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-05-01 mishandles object references, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 27252896.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.1 only; …

Published 2016-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.