CVE-2016-2495 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause Android devices to hang or reboot by sending a crafted file to the mediaserver component.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-2495?
CVE-2016-2495 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 13 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
SampleTable.cpp in libstagefright 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device hang or reboot) via a crafted file, aka internal bug 28076789.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2495?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2016-2495?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2495 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-2016-2495 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2495 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pq78-c2m4-ccfm, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2495.