CVE-2016-3861

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 11%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDSep 11

1st PoCSep 8

exploitation probability

11%top 5% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

LibUtils in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 mishandles conversions between Unicode character encodings with different encoding widths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted file, aka internal bug 29250543.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

githubgithub.com/kswzzl/CVE-2016-3861★ 1 cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40354/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/40354unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/3944c65637dfed14a5a895685edfa4bacaf9f76e https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/866dc26ad4a98cc835d075b627326e7d7e52ffa1 https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/1f4b49e64adf4623eefda503bca61e253597b9bf https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/ecf5fd58a8f50362ce9e8d4245a33d56f29f142b http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40354/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92811 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763