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CVE-2016-3757

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The print_maps function in toolbox/lsof.c 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 2016-07-01 allows user-assisted attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that attempts to list a long name of a memory-mapped file, aka internal bug 28175237. NOTE: print_maps is not related to the Vic Abell lsof product.

Date published : 2016-07-10

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/ae18eb014609948a40e22192b87b10efc680daa7

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