| Name | CVE-2016-6711 |
| Description | A remote denial of service vulnerability in libvpx in Mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-11-01 could enable an attacker to use a specially crafted file to cause a device hang or reboot. This issue is rated as High due to the possibility of remote denial of service. Android ID: A-30593765. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | ELA-1112-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| libvpx (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.3.0-3+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.6.1-3+deb9u3 | vulnerable |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.6.1-3+deb9u6 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.7.0-3+deb10u3 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1.9.0-1+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1.12.0-1+deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.14.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - libvpx <ignored> (Minpr issue)
[wheezy] - libvpx <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
probably fixed earlier, but this was the version checked
Wheezy is confirmed (by code inspection) to have vulnerable source.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libvpx/+/063be1485e0099bc81ace3a08b0ec9186dcad693