CVE-2016-6747

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2016-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

A denial of service vulnerability in Mediaserver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable an attacker to use a specially crafted file to cause a device hang or reboot. This issue is rated as High due to the possibility of remote denial of service. Android ID: A-31244612. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6747.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94212
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94212
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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