CVE-2016-3872

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% 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-119

Description

Buffer overflow in codecs/on2/dec/SoftVPX.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 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 29421675.

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/+/630ed150f7201ddadb00b8b8ce0c55c4cc6e8742
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/9f9ba255a0c59544f3555c9c45512c3a2fac5fad
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/630ed150f7201ddadb00b8b8ce0c55c4cc6e8742
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/9f9ba255a0c59544f3555c9c45512c3a2fac5fad

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