CVE-2016-6759

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

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-29982686. References: QC-CR#1055766.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 3.10, 3.18

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94677
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94677
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-12-01.html

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