CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6711
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
A remote denial of service vulnerability in libvpx 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 2016-11-01 could enable an attacker to use a specially crafted file to cause a device hang or reboot. This issue is rated as High due to the possibility of remote denial of service. Android ID: A-30593765.
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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94137 www.securityfocus.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/063be1485e0099bc81ace3a08b0ec9186dcad693 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94137 www.securityfocus.com
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/063be1485e0099bc81ace3a08b0ec9186dcad693 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Vendor Advisory