CVE-2015-3826

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 73.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-10-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The MPEG4Extractor::parse3GPPMetaData function in MPEG4Extractor.cpp in libstagefright in Android before 5.1.1 LMY48I does not enforce a minimum size for UTF-16 strings containing a Byte Order Mark (BOM), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow, buffer over-read, and mediaserver process crash) via crafted 3GPP metadata, aka internal bug 20923261, a related issue to CVE-2015-3828.

Affected products

Android: through 5.1

References

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/hw-448928
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76052
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033094
http://www1.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-448928.htm
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/f4f7e0c102819f039ebb1972b3dba1d3186bc1d1
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=android-security-updates/Ugvu3fi6RQM/yzJvoTVrIQAJ
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/hw-448928
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76052
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033094
http://www1.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-448928.htm
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/f4f7e0c102819f039ebb1972b3dba1d3186bc1d1
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=android-security-updates/Ugvu3fi6RQM/yzJvoTVrIQAJ

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