CVE-2016-3861

NameCVE-2016-3861
DescriptionLibUtils 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severityhigh
Debian Bugs858177

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
android-platform-system-core (PTS)jessie21-6vulnerable
stretch1:7.0.0+r33-1fixed
bullseye, sid, buster1:8.1.0+r23-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
android-platform-system-coresource(unstable)1:7.0.0+r1-4unimportant858177

Notes

Not running as a privileged process in SDK
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