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

> Remote attackers can cause device hang or reboot via crafted media files in Android's libvpx decoder, requiring OS updates.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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 available:** Yes
- **Published:** 11 Sep 2016
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3881, GHSA-966f-h4pf-gr7m, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3881

## 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 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3881?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Google Android.

## How do I fix CVE-2016-3881?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## 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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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2016-3881 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Google Android. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3881/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3881/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3881
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3881
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3881

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2016-3881/
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