CVE-2016-6706

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in libstagefright in Mediaserver in Android 7.0 before 2016-11-01 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. Android ID: A-31385713.

Affected products

Android: through 7.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94134
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/1d4feebdb85db46e138530f360d9ff2490e14353
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94134
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/1d4feebdb85db46e138530f360d9ff2490e14353
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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