ubuntu · CVE-2016-0842

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Priority: high Published: 2016-04-18 00:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:51:30 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0842 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (android), 9 status rows across 9 suites (artful, bionic, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 4, ignored 4, released 1.

Description:

The H.264 decoder in libstagefright in Android 6.x before 2016-04-01 mishandles Memory Management Control Operation (MMCO) data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 25818142.

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