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CVE-2016-6707

Published: Nov 25, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in System Server in Android 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 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-31350622.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Google Inc.	Android	affected `Android-6.0` affected `Android-6.0.1` affected `Android-7.0`

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=928

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https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/12/bitunmap-attacking-android-ashmem.html

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vdb-entry

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exploit

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https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html

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