CVE-2016-2481

CVE-2016-2481 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the mm-video-v4l2 venc component within the mediaserver in various Android versions (4.x, 5.0.x, 5.1.x, and 6.x prior to June 2016). This flaw stems from improper handling of a buffer count, allowing a crafted application to gain elevated privileges, such as Signature or SignatureOrSystem access. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) to exploit, but has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it received some community discussion and media coverage at the time of disclosure.