CVE-2016-2413: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

media/libmedia/IOMX.cpp in mediaserver in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not initialize a handle pointer, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 26403627.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 2016-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.