UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0838

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0838

    Published: 18 Apr 2016Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-0838

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-0838, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sonivox/+/3ac044334c3ff6a61cb4238ff3ddaf17c7efcf49, https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/sonivox/+/24d7c408c52143bce7b49de82f3913fd8d1219cf, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0838

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: android

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160330-0939-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    20150818-1500-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High