CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-3821

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 05, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Android Google 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)
Android Google 4.0.1 (including) 4.0.1 (including)
Android Google 4.0.2 (including) 4.0.2 (including)
Android Google 4.0.3 (including) 4.0.3 (including)
Android Google 4.0.4 (including) 4.0.4 (including)
Android Google 4.1 (including) 4.1 (including)
Android Google 4.1.2 (including) 4.1.2 (including)
Android Google 4.2 (including) 4.2 (including)
Android Google 4.2.1 (including) 4.2.1 (including)
Android Google 4.2.2 (including) 4.2.2 (including)
Android Google 4.3 (including) 4.3 (including)
Android Google 4.3.1 (including) 4.3.1 (including)
Android Google 4.4 (including) 4.4 (including)
Android Google 4.4.1 (including) 4.4.1 (including)
Android Google 4.4.2 (including) 4.4.2 (including)
Android Google 4.4.3 (including) 4.4.3 (including)
Android Google 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Android Google 5.0.1 (including) 5.0.1 (including)
Android Google 5.1 (including) 5.1 (including)
Android Google 5.1.0 (including) 5.1.0 (including)
Android Google 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)
Android Google 6.0.1 (including) 6.0.1 (including)
Android Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Android Ubuntu trusty *
Android Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Android Ubuntu xenial *
Android Ubuntu yakkety *
Android Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

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