CVE-2016-2481

The mm-video-v4l2 venc component 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 2016-06-01 mishandles a buffer count, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 27532497.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2016-06-13

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Android (Google)

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/qcom/media/+/89913d7df36dbeb458ce165856bd6505a2ec647d