CVE-2016-6734

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA GPU driver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Android ID: A-30907120. References: NVIDIA N-CVE-2016-6734.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2016-11-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Android (Google)
• Android (Google Inc.)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94140
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html