CVE-2016-6759

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Qualcomm media codecs could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10, Kernel-3.18. Android ID: A-29982686. References: QC-CR#1055766.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.8 High

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2017-01-12

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

• Android (Google Inc.)
• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94677
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html