CVE-2016-3862: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

media/ExifInterface.java 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 2016-09-01 does not properly interact with the use of static variables in libjhead_jni, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 29270469.

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 2016-09-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.