CVE-2016-6724: Google Android

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

A denial of service vulnerability in the Input Manager Service 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 2016-11-01, and 7.0 before 2016-11-01 could enable a local malicious application to cause the device to continually reboot. This issue is rated as Moderate because it is a temporary denial of service that requires a factory reset to fix. Android ID: A-30568284.

Affected products

• Google Android: from 4.0, before 4.4.4 (fixed in 4.4.4); from 5.0, before 5.0.2 (fixed in 5.0.2); from 5.1, before 5.1.1 (fixed in 5.1.1); from 6.0, up to and including 6.0.1; version 7.0 only

Published 2016-11-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.