CVE-2016-3743: Google Android

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

decoder/ih264d_api.c in mediaserver in Android 6.x before 2016-07-01 does not initialize certain data structures, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 27907656.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 2016-07-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.