PT-2017-1211 · Linux+2 · Linux+2

CVE-2016-6492 · Publicado 2017-01-12 · Atualizado 2026-05-13

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

Alta

Vetor base

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MediaTek driver versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient access control in the MT6573FDVT SetRegHW function of the camera fdvt.c driver for the MediaTek application in the Android operating system. This can be exploited by a remote attacker using a specially crafted application to elevate privileges. Additionally, the MT6573FDVT SetRegHW function in the MediaTek driver for Linux allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an MT6573FDVTIOC T SET FDCONF CMD IOCTL call.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Enumeração de Fraquezas

CWE-264

Identificadores relacionados

BDU:2017-00324

CVE-2016-6492

Produtos afetados

Android

Linux

Mediatek Driver

Referências · 13

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138113/MediaTek-Driver-Privilege-Escalation.html · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00324 · Nota de Segurança
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92207 · Nota
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6492 · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://t.me/cveNotify/163319 · Publicação no Telegram
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6492 · Aviso do Fabricante
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6492 · Nota de Segurança
• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Aug/0 · Nota
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6492 · Aviso do Fabricante
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/539058/100/0/threaded · Nota
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6492 · Nota de Segurança
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/539058/100/0/threaded · Nota