CVE-2016-1621
Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—
Severity9.8Critical · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability5.90 %higher than 93% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
libvpx in mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H, and 6.0 before 2016-03-01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, related to libwebm/mkvparser.cpp and other files, aka internal bug 23452792.
CVSS
- Base score
- 9.8
- Version
- 3.0
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 5.90 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 93
- Score date
- 10/22/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-119
References
Show 14 references
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179128.html
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84239
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/04839626ed859623901ebd3a5fd483982186b59d
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/5a9753fca56f0eeb9f61e342b2fccffc364f9426
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/5a6788730acfc6fd8f4a6ef89d2c376572a26b55
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179128.html
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84239
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/04839626ed859623901ebd3a5fd483982186b59d
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/5a9753fca56f0eeb9f61e342b2fccffc364f9426
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/5a6788730acfc6fd8f4a6ef89d2c376572a26b55
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
Raw JSON (NVD)
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