CVE-2016-3879: Google Android

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

arm-wt-22k/lib_src/eas_mdls.c 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, and device hang or reboot) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 29770686.

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.