CVE-2016-2454

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Qualcomm hardware video codec in Android before 2016-05-01 on Nexus 5 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted file, aka internal bug 26221024.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-05-01.html

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