CVE-2016-2491

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The NVIDIA camera driver in Android before 2016-06-01 on Nexus 9 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 27556408.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4561
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4561
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-06-01.html

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