CVE-2016-3745: Google Android

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows 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 2016-07-01 allow attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that provides an AudioEffect reply, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 28173666.

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