CVE-2015-6636

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

mediaserver in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49F and 6.0 before 2016-01-01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bugs 25070493 and 24686670.

Affected products

Android: 5.0, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034592
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-01-01.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034592

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