PT-2017-1049

CVE-2016-6789

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Published

2017-01-12

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Updated

2017-10-19

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CVSS 2.0
9.3
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions Kernel-3.18
Description An elevation of privilege issue in the NVIDIA libomx library 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.
Recommendations For Android version Kernel-3.18, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.
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