CVE-2016-6761

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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-29421682. References: QC-CR#1055792.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-284

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 12, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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