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CVE-2016-6790

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CVE-2016-6790

Published: Jan 12, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the NVIDIA libomx library (libnvomx) 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-3.18. Android ID: A-31251628. References: N-CVE-2016-6790.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

Android Kernel-3.18

affected
Android Kernel-3.18

References

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