CVE-2016-3881 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3881?

CVE-2016-3881 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Sep 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

The decoder_peek_si_internal function in vp9/vp9_dx_iface.c in libvpx in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read, and device hang or reboot) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 30013856.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3881?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3881?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2016-3881 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3881 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3881, GHSA-966f-h4pf-gr7m, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3881.