CVE-2016-3821
Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—
Severity9.8Critical · CVSS 3.0
Exploitation probability1.76 %higher than 78% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
libmedia 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 2016-08-01 has certain incorrect declarations, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 28166152.
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
- 1.76 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 78
- 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-476
References
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- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92228
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/42a25c46b844518ff0d0b920c20c519e1417be69
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92228
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/42a25c46b844518ff0d0b920c20c519e1417be69
Raw JSON (NVD)
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