A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (the affected version is unknown). This affects an unknown code of the component Conscrypt. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality.

The weakness was disclosed 11/07/2016 as Android Security Bulletin - November 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at source.android.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2016-6709 since 08/11/2016. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 94169†). The entries VDB-87972, VDB-93436, VDB-93466 and VDB-93476 are pretty similar.

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• Android

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