CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-6761

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

The organization may be exposed to unauthorized access to sensitive data and system functions, potentially leading to serious security breaches.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to the latest version to minimize the risk associated with this vulnerability and to monitor applications running on the system.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS