Access Restriction Bypass Affecting android-platform-system-core package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.48% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-ANDROIDPLATFORMSYSTEMCORE-338539
  • published11 Sept 2016
  • disclosed11 Sept 2016

Introduced: 11 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-3861  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:16.04 android-platform-system-core.

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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.