Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package android-platform-system-core (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published11 Sept 2016
- disclosed11 Sept 2016
Introduced: 11 Sep 2016
CVE-2016-3861 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream android-platform-system-core package and not the android-platform-system-core package as distributed by Debian.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3861
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40354/
- 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
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92811
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-3861