CVE-2016-0804

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The NuPlayer::GenericSource::notifyPreparedAndCleanup function in media/libmediaplayerservice/nuplayer/GenericSource.cpp in mediaserver in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G and 6.x before 2016-02-01 improperly manages mDrmManagerClient objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 25070434.

Affected products

Android: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1, 5.1.0, 5.1.1 (+2)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-02-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform%2Fframeworks%2Fav/+/224858e719d045c8554856b12c4ab73d2375cf33
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-02-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform%2Fframeworks%2Fav/+/224858e719d045c8554856b12c4ab73d2375cf33

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