PT-2016-7067 · Google · Android

Mark Brand · Published 2016-11-25 · Updated 2019-03-07 · CVE-2016-6707

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions 6.x through 7.0 before 2016-11-01

Description An elevation of privilege issue could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process, potentially allowing access to elevated capabilities not normally accessible to third-party applications.

Recommendations For Android versions 6.x through 7.0, update to a version released after 2016-11-01 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6707

Affected Products

Android

References · 10

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/40874 · Exploit
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6707 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6707 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94164 · Note
• https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html · Note
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928 · Note