CVE-2016-2482 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the mm-video-v4l2 vdec component of Android's mediaserver, affecting versions 4.x through 6.x prior to specific patch levels. It stems from improper buffer count handling, 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) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has received some community and media attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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