CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6790

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-01-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-284

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 3.18

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References