ubuntu-cve-2016-3861
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-09-11 21:59
Modified
2026-04-22 07:37
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "android",
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-copyright",
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-emulator",
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ubuntu-emulator-images",
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "ubuntu-emulator-runtime",
            "binary_version": "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "android",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160330-0939-0ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "20150818-1500-0ubuntu2",
        "20150818-1500-0ubuntu3",
        "20160307-0742-0ubuntu3",
        "20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "adb",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-libadb",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-libbacktrace",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
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            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-liblog",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-libsparse",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-libutils",
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          {
            "binary_name": "android-libziparchive",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-libzipfile",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "android-platform-system-core-headers",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "fastboot",
            "binary_version": "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "android-platform-system-core",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/android-platform-system-core@1:6.0.1+r16-3?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
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        "21-6",
        "1:6.0.0+r26-1",
        "1:6.0.1+r16-1",
        "1:6.0.1+r16-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3861",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:37:57Z",
  "published": "2016-09-11T21:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3861"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/3944c65637dfed14a5a895685edfa4bacaf9f76e"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/866dc26ad4a98cc835d075b627326e7d7e52ffa1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/1f4b49e64adf4623eefda503bca61e253597b9bf"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/ecf5fd58a8f50362ce9e8d4245a33d56f29f142b"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3861"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2016-3861"
  ]
}



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