CVE-2016-0808

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.2 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% 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-19

Description

Integer overflow in the getCoverageFormat12 function in CmapCoverage.cpp in the Minikin library in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49G and 6.x before 2016-02-01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (continuous rebooting) via an application that triggers loading of a crafted TTF font, aka internal bug 25645298.

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/frameworks/minikin/+/ed4c8d79153baab7f26562afb8930652dfbf853b
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-02-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/minikin/+/ed4c8d79153baab7f26562afb8930652dfbf853b

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