CVE-2016-3829: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ih264d decoder in mediaserver in Android 6.x before 2016-08-01 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device hang or reboot) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 29023649.

Affected products

• Google Android: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 2016-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.