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POSTED BY: Anestis Bechtsoudis / 25.07.2016

Android stagefright impeg2d_vld_decode stack buffer overflows

CENSUS ID:CENSUS-2016-0006
CVE ID:CVE-2016-0836
Android ID:25812590
Affected Products:Android OS 6.0 — 6.0.1
Class:Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
Discovered by:Anestis Bechtsoudis

Android provides a media playback engine at the native level called Stagefright that comes built-in with software-based codecs for several popular media formats. Stagefright features for audio and video playback include integration with OpenMAX codecs, session management, time-synchronized rendering, transport control, and DRM.