CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6717

Published: Nov 25, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.6 HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
NEGLIGIBLE
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An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Mediaserver in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, 6.x before 2016-11-01, and 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 Moderate because it first requires exploitation of a separate vulnerability. Android ID: A-31350239.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
AndroidGoogle4.0 (including)4.4.4 (excluding)
AndroidGoogle5.0 (including)5.0.2 (excluding)
AndroidGoogle5.1 (including)5.1.1 (excluding)
AndroidGoogle6.0 (including)6.0.1 (including)
AndroidGoogle7.0 (including)7.0 (including)
AndroidUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
AndroidUbuntutrusty*
AndroidUbuntuupstream*
AndroidUbuntuvivid/stable-phone-overlay*
AndroidUbuntuxenial*
AndroidUbuntuyakkety*
AndroidUbuntuzesty*

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