CVE-2016-3898: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Telephony in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of locked-screen 911 TTY functionality) via a crafted application that modifies the TTY mode by broadcasting an intent, aka internal bug 29832693.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; …

Published 2016-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.