CVE-2016-2429 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2429?

CVE-2016-2429 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Google Android, published on 9 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

libFLAC/stream_decoder.c 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 2016-05-01 does not prevent free operations on uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 27211885.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2429?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2429?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2429 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-2429 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2429 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2023-35674 Android Framework Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2025-48595 Android Framework Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2024-32896 Android Pixel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.1

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6pq6-p2p2-44cc, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2429.