CVE-2016-2414
medium
CVSS v3
6.2
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.2
Description
The Minikin library in Android 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 does not properly consider negative size values in font data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and reboot loop) via a crafted font, aka internal bug 26413177.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
62%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/minikin/+/ca8ac8acdad662230ae37998c6c4091bb39402b6
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/minikin/+/f4785aa1947b8d22d5b19559ef1ca526d98e0e73
- https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=192618
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/minikin/+/ca8ac8acdad662230ae37998c6c4091bb39402b6
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/minikin/+/f4785aa1947b8d22d5b19559ef1ca526d98e0e73
- https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=192618
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.