CVE-2016-3756 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause Android devices to hang or reboot by sending a crafted media file due to missing partition validation in the mediaserver.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-3756?
CVE-2016-3756 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Jul 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Tremolo/res012.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 2016-07-01 does not validate the number of partitions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device hang or reboot) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 28556125.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3756?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2016-3756?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-3756 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-2016-3756 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3756 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-h7vp-q96x-p4vc, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3756.