CVE-2016-3751

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: 2016-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in libpng before 1.6.20, as used 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 2016-07-01, allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 23265085.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+16)
pnggroup libpng: through 1.6.19

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/09/4
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libpng/+/9d4853418ab2f754c2b63e091c29c5529b8b86ca
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0004/
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/09/4
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libpng/+/9d4853418ab2f754c2b63e091c29c5529b8b86ca
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240719-0004/

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