{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3861","details":"LibUtils in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-09-01, and 7.0 before 2016-09-01 mishandles conversions between Unicode character encodings with different encoding widths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted file, aka internal bug 29250543.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:45:43Z","published":"2016-09-11T21:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-3861"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3861"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-09-01.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/3944c65637dfed14a5a895685edfa4bacaf9f76e"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/866dc26ad4a98cc835d075b627326e7d7e52ffa1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/+/1f4b49e64adf4623eefda503bca61e253597b9bf"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/ecf5fd58a8f50362ce9e8d4245a33d56f29f142b"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3861"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"android","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160330-0939-0ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["20150818-1500-0ubuntu2","20150818-1500-0ubuntu3","20160307-0742-0ubuntu3","20160330-0939-0ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"android"},{"binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"android-copyright"},{"binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"android-emulator"},{"binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"ubuntu-emulator-images"},{"binary_version":"20160330-0939-0ubuntu1","binary_name":"ubuntu-emulator-runtime"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3861.json"}},{"package":{"name":"android-platform-system-core","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/android-platform-system-core@1:6.0.1+r16-3?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["21-6","1:6.0.0+r26-1","1:6.0.1+r16-1","1:6.0.1+r16-3"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"adb"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libadb"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libadb-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libbacktrace"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libbacktrace-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libbase"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libbase-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libcutils"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libcutils-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-liblog"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-liblog-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libsparse"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libsparse-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libutils"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libutils-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libziparchive"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libziparchive-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libzipfile"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-libzipfile-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"android-platform-system-core-headers"},{"binary_version":"1:6.0.1+r16-3","binary_name":"fastboot"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3861.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}