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.
Published: 2016-04-18
Score: 6.2 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-3496 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.
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00523}

epss

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: google_android

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T23:24:49.320Z

Reserved: 2016-02-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-2414

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-04-18T00:59:21.010

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2016-2414

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Weaknesses