CVE-2016-2414: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Minikin library 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 properly consider negative size values in font data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and reboot loop) via a crafted font, aka internal bug 26413177.

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.