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CVE-2016-0821

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.5)—
Severity5.5Medium · CVSS 3.1
Exploitation probability0.38 %higher than 30% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found

The LIST_POISON feature in include/linux/poison.h in the Linux kernel before 4.3, as used in Android 6.0.1 before 2016-03-01, does not properly consider the relationship to the mmap_min_addr value, which makes it easier for attackers to bypass a poison-pointer protection mechanism by triggering the use of an uninitialized list entry, aka Android internal bug 26186802, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3636.

CVSS

Base score
5.5
Version
3.1
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
0.38 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs
30
Score date
10/24/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (2)

Google — AndroidLinux — Linux Kernel

CWEs

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