CVE-2016-2418

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

media/libmedia/IOMX.cpp in mediaserver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not initialize certain metadata buffer pointers, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory, and consequently bypass an unspecified protection mechanism, via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 26324358.

Affected products

Android: 6.0, 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/8d87321b704cb3f88e8cae668937d001fd63d5e3
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/8d87321b704cb3f88e8cae668937d001fd63d5e3

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