ubuntu · CVE-2016-3829

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-08-05 20:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:00:49 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3829 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (android), 8 status rows across 8 suites (artful, bionic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 4, ignored 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

The ih264d decoder in mediaserver in Android 6.x before 2016-08-01 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (device hang or reboot) via a crafted media file, aka internal bug 29023649.

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