ubuntu · CVE-2016-0848

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-04-18 00:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:51:35 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0848 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (android), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): DNE 2, not-affected 2, released 1.

Description:

Race condition in Download Manager 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 2016-04-01 allows attackers to bypass private-storage file-access restrictions via a crafted application that changes a symlink target, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 26211054.

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