CVE-2015-3862 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can crash the Android mediaserver process, causing a denial of service on affected devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not stated
- Attackable
- Not stated
- Victim action needed
- Not stated
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-3862?
CVE-2015-3862 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 6 Oct 2015.
Official description
mediaserver in Android before 5.1.1 LMY48T allows attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via unspecified vectors, aka internal bug 22954006.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3862?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2015-3862?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-3862 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-3862 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3862 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mmww-6jx8-6gwm.