CVE-2016-3871

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in codecs/mp3dec/SoftMP3.cpp in libstagefright in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 29422022.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+17)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/3c4edac2a5b00dec6c8579a0ee658cfb3bb16d94
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/c17ad2f0c7e00fd1bbf01d0dfed41f72d78267ad
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/c2639afac631f5c1ffddf70ee8a6fe943d0bedf9
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/3c4edac2a5b00dec6c8579a0ee658cfb3bb16d94
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/c17ad2f0c7e00fd1bbf01d0dfed41f72d78267ad
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/c2639afac631f5c1ffddf70ee8a6fe943d0bedf9

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