CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-3861

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-09-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-09-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-264

Description

LibUtils in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 mishandles conversions between Unicode character encodings with different encoding widths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted file, aka internal bug 29250543.

Affected configurations

• google android 4.0 • google android 4.0.1 • google android 4.0.2 • google android 4.0.3 • google android 4.0.4 • google android 4.1 • google android 4.1.2 • google android 4.2 • google android 4.2.1 • google android 4.2.2 • google android 4.3 • google android 4.3.1 • google android 4.4 • google android 4.4.1 • google android 4.4.2 • google android 4.4.3 • google android 5.0 • google android 5.0.1 • google android 5.1 • google android 5.1.0 • google android 6.0 • google android 6.0.1 • google android 7.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References