CVE-2016-2477: Google Android

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

mm-video-v4l2/vidc/vdec/src/omx_vdec_msm8974.cpp 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 2016-06-01 mishandles pointers, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 27251096.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.1 only; …

Published 2016-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.