CVE-2016-2419

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-264

Description

media/libmedia/IDrm.cpp in mediaserver in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not initialize a certain key-request data structure, 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 26323455.

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/+/5a856f2092f7086aa0fea9ae06b9255befcdcd34
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/5a856f2092f7086aa0fea9ae06b9255befcdcd34

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