CVE-2016-3821

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

libmedia 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 2016-08-01 has certain incorrect declarations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 28166152.

Affected products

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

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92228
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/42a25c46b844518ff0d0b920c20c519e1417be69
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92228
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/42a25c46b844518ff0d0b920c20c519e1417be69

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