CVE-2016-2494

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Off-by-one error in sdcard/sdcard.c 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 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 28085658.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+16)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137404/Android-system-bin-sdcard-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/864e2e22fcd0cba3f5e67680ccabd0302dfda45d
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39921/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137404/Android-system-bin-sdcard-Stack-Buffer-Overflow.html
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/864e2e22fcd0cba3f5e67680ccabd0302dfda45d
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39921/

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