CVE-2016-2477

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

mm-video-v4l2/vidc/vdec/src/omx_vdec_msm8974.cpp in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-06-01 mishandles pointers, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 27251096.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+12)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/qcom/media/+/f22c2a0f0f9e030c240468d9d18b9297f001bcf0
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/qcom/media/+/f22c2a0f0f9e030c240468d9d18b9297f001bcf0

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