High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-3746

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mm-video-v4l2 vdec component 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 2016-07-01 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 27890802.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/qcom/media/+/5b82f4f90c3d531313714df4b936f92fb0ff15cfnvd

News mentions

No linked articles in our index yet.

cvss	0.507
epss	0.000
exploit	0.000
kev	0.000
patch	0.000
ransomware	0.000