PT-2016-7096 · Google · Android

Published 2016-11-25 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2016-6739

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 prior to 2016-11-05

Description An elevation of privilege issue in the Qualcomm camera driver could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is considered High severity because it requires compromising a privileged process.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-11-05, update to a version released on or after 2016-11-05 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6739

Affected Products

Android

References · 7

• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6739 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6739 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6739 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94142 · Note