Sonivox in mediaserver in Android: Arbitrary Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability

Sonivox in mediaserver in Android: Arbitrary Code Execution and Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2016-0838 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Sonivox 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 2016-04-01 does not check for a negative number of samples, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, related to arm-wt-22k/lib_src/eas_wtengine.c and arm-wt-22k/lib_src/eas_wtsynth.c, aka internal bug 26366256.

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