CVE-2016-2414 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.2