Privilege escalation vulnerability in Android mediaserver (CVE-2016-3861)

CVE-2016-3913 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

media/libmediaplayerservice/MediaPlayerService.cpp in mediaserver 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 2016-10-01, and 7.0 before 2016-10-01 does not validate a certain static_cast operation, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 30204103.

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