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CVE-2016-6742

Published: Nov 25, 2016 | Modified: Nov 28, 2016
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
HIGH
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6742
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Synaptics touchscreen driver in Android before 2016-11-05 could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Android ID: A-30799828.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Android Google * 7.0 (including)
Android Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Android Ubuntu trusty *
Android Ubuntu upstream *
Android Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Android Ubuntu xenial *
Android Ubuntu yakkety *
Android Ubuntu zesty *

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